Spinorial higher-spin gauge theory from IKKT in Euclidean and Minkowski signatures

Abstract

We explore the semi-classical relation between the fuzzy 4-hyperboloid $H_N^4$ and non-compact quantized twistor space $\mathbb{P}^{1,2}$ at large $N$. This provides two backgrounds $N$ of the IKKT matrix model via two natural stereographic projections, leading to higher-spin gauge theories with Euclidean and Minkowski signature denoted by HS-IKKT. The resulting higher-spin gauge theory can be understood as an uplift of $\mathcal{N} = 4$ super Yang-Mills to twistor space. The action of HS-IKKT is written using a spinor formalism in both Euclidean and Minkowski signature. We then compute the tree-level amplitudes of the massless sector within the Yang-Mills part of the HS-IKKT model in the flat limit in Euclidean signature. All $n$-point tree-level scattering amplitudes for $n \geq 4$ of this sector are found to vanish in the flat limit.