PIRSA:21110004

Twistor action for GR - Atul Sharma, University of Oxford

Hurlburt, D. (2021). Twistor action for GR - Atul Sharma, University of Oxford. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/21110004

Hurlburt, Dave. Twistor action for GR - Atul Sharma, University of Oxford. Perimeter Institute, Nov. 04, 2021, https://pirsa.org/21110004 

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:21110004,
            doi = {10.48660/21110004},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/21110004},
            author = {Hurlburt, Dave},
            keywords = {Quantum Gravity},
            language = {en},
            title = {Twistor action for GR - Atul Sharma, University of Oxford},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2021},
            month = {nov},
            note = {PIRSA:21110004 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }

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It has been a long-standing dream of twistor theorists to understand gravity without ever talking about gravitons in space-time. To this end, I will describe the recent discovery of a twistor action formulation of perturbative general relativity. This takes the form of a theory governing complex structure deformations on twistor space. It reduces to Plebanski's formulation of GR on performing the Penrose transform to space-time. Some promising applications include finding on-shell recursion relations like MHV rules for graviton scattering amplitudes, studying the quantum integrability of self-dual GR, etc.

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