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We present a novel twistor formulation of the ten-dimensional massless super-particle. This formulation is based on the introduction of pure spinor variables through a field redefinition of another model for the superparticle, and in the new description we find that the super-Pauli-Lubanski three-form naturally arises as a constraint. Quantization is studied in detail for both models and they are shown to correctly describe the D = 10 super-Yang-Mills states.
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Sepúlveda, D.G., Guillen, M. A pure spinor twistor description of the D = 10 superparticle. J. High Energ. Phys. 2020, 130 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2020)130
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