PIRSA:21100050 Scientific Series Mathematical physics

DOI10.48660/21100050

Series: Mathematical Physics

Bittleston, R. (2021). Twistors, integrability, and 4d Chern-Simons theory. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/21100050

Bittleston, Roland. Twistors, integrability, and 4d Chern-Simons theory. Perimeter Institute, Oct. 29, 2021, https://pirsa.org/21100050 

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  author = {Bittleston, Roland},
  keywords = {Mathematical physics},
  language = {en},
  title = {Twistors, integrability, and 4d Chern-Simons theory},
  publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
  year = {2021},
  month = {oct},
  note = {PIRSA:21100050 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
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Abstract

I will connect approaches to classical integrable systems via 4d Chern-Simons theory and via symmetry reductions of the anti-self-dual Yang-Mills equations. In particular, I will consider holomorphic Chern-Simons theory on twistor space, defined using a range of meromorphic (3,0)-forms. On shell these are, in most cases, found to agree with actions for anti-self-dual Yang-Mills theory on space-time. Under symmetry reduction, these space-time actions yield actions for 2d integrable systems. On the other hand, performing the symmetry reduction directly on twistor space reduces the holomorphic Chern-Simons action to 4d Chern-Simons theory.

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