Supersymmetry, twistors, and the Yang-Mills equations

Eastwood, Michael

doi:10.1090/S0002-9947-1987-0882706-1

Supersymmetry, twistors, and the Yang-Mills equations
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Abstract:

This article investigates a supersymmetric proof due to Witten of the twistor description of general Yang-Mills fields due to Green, Isenberg, and Yasskin. In particular, some rigor is added and the rather complicated calculations are given in detail.

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