Gravity from Rational Curves in Twistor Space

Freddy Cachazo and David Skinner
Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 161301 – Published 16 April 2013

Abstract

This Letter presents a new formula which is conjectured to yield all tree amplitudes in N=8 supergravity. The amplitudes are described in terms of higher degree rational maps to twistor space. The resulting expression has manifest N=8 supersymmetry and is manifestly permutation symmetric in all external states. It depends monomially on the infinity twistor that explicitly breaks conformal symmetry to Poincaré symmetry. We have carried out various nontrivial analytic and numerical checks of the formula for up to eight external states with arbitrary helicities.

  • Received 14 December 2012

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.161301

© 2013 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Freddy Cachazo*

  • Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, 31 Caroline Street, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 2Y5, Canada

David Skinner

  • Institute for Advanced Study, Einstein Drive, Princeton, New Jersey 08540, United States and Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Cambridge CB3 0WA, United Kingdom

  • *fcachazo@perimeterinstitute.ca
  • dskinner@ias.edu

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Vol. 110, Iss. 16 — 19 April 2013

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