{
  "id": "1608.04380",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2016-08-15T19:59:04.000Z",
  "updated": "2016-08-15T19:59:04.000Z",
  "title": "Twistor variables for Anti-de Sitter (super)particles",
  "authors": [
    "Alex S. Arvanitakis",
    "Alec E. Barns-Graham",
    "Paul K. Townsend"
  ],
  "comment": "5 pages",
  "categories": [
    "hep-th",
    "math-ph",
    "math.MP"
  ],
  "abstract": "Starting from the classical action for a spin-zero particle in a (D + 1)-dimensional anti-Sitter spacetime, we recover the Breitenlohner-Freedman bound by quantization. We then find a twistor form of the action for D = 3, 4, 6 for which the SO(2, D) isometry group is a linearly realized symmetry. The supertwistor generalization yields superparticle actions that are manifestly invariant under the isometry supergroup of the near-horizon geometries of the M2, D3 and M5 brane solutions of string/M-theory; in each case quantization yields a supermultiplet with 128 + 128 states.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2016-08-15T19:59:04.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "anti-de sitter",
      "twistor variables",
      "supertwistor generalization yields superparticle actions",
      "m5 brane solutions",
      "case quantization yields"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 5,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}