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Alternative String Theory in Twistor Space for<mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mml:mi>N</mml:mi><mml:mo>=</mml:mo><mml:mn>4</mml:mn></mml:math>Super-Yang-Mills Theory

Alternative String Theory in Twistor Space for<mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mml:mi>N</mml:mi><mml:mo>=</mml:mo><mml:mn>4</mml:mn></mml:math>Super-Yang-Mills Theory

In this Letter, an alternative string theory in twistor space is proposed for describing perturbative $N=4$ super-Yang-Mills theory. Like the recent proposal of Witten, this string theory uses twistor worldsheet variables and has manifest spacetime superconformal invariance. However, in this proposal, tree-level super-Yang-Mills amplitudes come from open string tree amplitudes …