Higher genus twistor spaces and the celestial torus
Abstract
This paper studies novel four-dimensional integrable field theories that are deformations of self-dual Yang-Mills. They are engineered by considering holomorphic Chern-Simons and BF type theories on covers of twistor space obtained by pulling back the vector bundle O(1)21 to hyperelliptic or elliptic curves. Compactifying to 4d yields an integrable theory, which in the examples I study, are determined to leading order. The form of the higher-order corrections are bootstrapped, and I argue that the index structure and coefficients of these terms are fixed by integrability. The celestial chiral algebras of these theories are shown to live on hyper-elliptic and elliptic curves, respectively. Symmetry reducing these integrable deformations to 2d yields an example of a hyperelliptic and elliptic integrable model governing a deformation of Hitchin's equations.
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