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Integrable deformations from twistor space
- Source :
- SciPost Physics, Vol 17, Iss 1, p 008 (2024)
- Publication Year :
- 2024
- Publisher :
- SciPost, 2024.
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Abstract
- Integrable field theories in two dimensions are known to originate as defect theories of 4d Chern-Simons and as symmetry reductions of the 4d anti-self-dual Yang-Mills equations. Based on ideas of Costello, it has been proposed in work of Bittleston and Skinner that these two approaches can be unified starting from holomorphic Chern-Simons in 6 dimensions. We provide the first complete description of this diamond of integrable theories for a family of deformed sigma models, going beyond the Dirichlet boundary conditions that have been considered thus far. Starting from 6d holomorphic Chern-Simons theory on twistor space with a particular meromorphic 3-form $\Omega$, we construct the defect theory to find a novel 4d integrable field theory, whose equations of motion can be recast as the 4d anti-self-dual Yang-Mills equations. Symmetry reducing, we find a multi-parameter 2d integrable model, which specialises to the $\lambda$-deformation at a certain point in parameter space. The same model is recovered by first symmetry reducing, to give 4d Chern-Simons with generalised boundary conditions, and then constructing the defect theory.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 25424653
- Volume :
- 17
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Journal :
- SciPost Physics
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsdoj.53658370cfaa49209f36510bb022151c
- Document Type :
- article
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.21468/SciPostPhys.17.1.008