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arxiv: hep-th/0604040 · v1 · pith:27DSMNQ5new · submitted 2006-04-06 · ✦ hep-th

Supersymmetric Gauge Theories in Twistor Space

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We construct a twistor space action for N=4 super Yang-Mills theory and show that it is equivalent to its four dimensional spacetime counterpart at the level of perturbation theory. We compare our partition function to the original twistor-string proposal, showing that although our theory is closely related to string theory, it is free from conformal supergravity. We also provide twistor actions for gauge theories with N<4 supersymmetry, and show how matter multiplets may be coupled to the gauge sector.

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