Seminar series
Date
Mon, 29 Oct 2007
Time
11:00 -
12:00
Location
L3
Speaker
Lionel Mason
Organisation
Oxford
Abstract: Twistor-string theory is reformulated as a `half-twisted heterotic' theory with target $CP^3$. This in effect gives a Dolbeault formulation of a theory of holomorphic curves in twistor space and gives a clearer picture of the mathematical structures underlying the theory and how they arise from the original Witten and Berkovits models. It is also explained how space-time physics arises from the model. It intended that the lecture be, to a certain extent, pedagogical.