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The two-twistor formulation of particle mechanics in D-dimensional anti-de Sitter space for D = 4, 5, 7, which linearises invariance under the AdS isometry group Sp(4; \( \mathbb{K} \)) for \( \mathbb{K}=\mathbb{R},\mathbb{C},\mathrm{\mathbb{H}} \), is generalized to the massless N -extended “spinning particle”. The twistor variables are gauge invariant with respect to the initial N local worldline supersymmetries; this simplifies aspects of the quantum theory such as implications of global gauge anomalies. We also give details of the two-supertwistor form of the superparticle, in particular the massive superparticle on AdS5.
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Arvanitakis, A.S., Barns-Graham, A.E. & Townsend, P.K. Twistor description of spinning particles in AdS. J. High Energ. Phys. 2018, 59 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP01(2018)059
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