Scattering amplitudes and Wilson loops in twistor space

@article{Adamo2011ScatteringAA,
title={Scattering amplitudes and Wilson loops in twistor space},
author={Tim Adamo and Mathew Bullimore and Lionel Mason and David Skinner},
journal={Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical},
year={2011},
volume={44}
}
• Published 14 April 2011
• Mathematics
• Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical
This paper reviews the recent progress in twistor approaches to Wilson loops, amplitudes and their duality for super-Yang–Mills. Wilson loops and amplitudes are derived from first principles using the twistor action for maximally supersymmetric Yang–Mills theory. We start by deriving the MHV rules for gauge theory amplitudes from the twistor action in an axial gauge in twistor space, and show that this gives rise to the original momentum space version given by Cachazo, Svrček and Witten. We…
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