Twistors versus harmonics

Abstract

By lifting full Yang-Mills theory to R4 × S2, Mason et al. obtained MHV vertices by gauge transformation. Their Lagrangian depended on long intricate twistor manipulations. Spinor S2 harmonics give a one page proof, eliminating all the CP3 apparatus.

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