TY - JOUR
T1 - Harmonic space, self-dual Yang-Mills and the N = 2 string
AU - Marcus, Neil
AU - Oz, Yaron
AU - Yankielowicz, Shimon
N1 - Funding Information:
* Work supported in part by the US—Israel Binational Science Foundation and the Israel Academy of Science. E-mail: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
PY - 1992/7/20
Y1 - 1992/7/20
N2 - The geometrical structure and the quantum properties of the recently proposed harmonic-space action describing self-dual Yang-Mills (SDYM) theory are analyzed. The geometrical structure that is revealed is closely related to the twistor construction of instanton solutions. The theory gets no quantum corrections and, despite having SDYM as its classical equation of motion, its S-matrix is trivial. It is therefore not the theory of the N = 2 string. We also discuss the five-dimensional actions that have been proposed for SDYM.
AB - The geometrical structure and the quantum properties of the recently proposed harmonic-space action describing self-dual Yang-Mills (SDYM) theory are analyzed. The geometrical structure that is revealed is closely related to the twistor construction of instanton solutions. The theory gets no quantum corrections and, despite having SDYM as its classical equation of motion, its S-matrix is trivial. It is therefore not the theory of the N = 2 string. We also discuss the five-dimensional actions that have been proposed for SDYM.
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U2 - 10.1016/0550-3213(92)90592-Y
DO - 10.1016/0550-3213(92)90592-Y
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AN - SCOPUS:2842586703
SN - 0550-3213
VL - 379
SP - 121
EP - 142
JO - Nuclear Physics, Section B
JF - Nuclear Physics, Section B
IS - 1-2
ER -