Twistors in Mathematics and Physics
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Twistors in Mathematics and Physics

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Twistors in Mathematics and Physics

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Twistor theory has become a diverse subject as it has spread from its origins in theoretical physics to applications in pure mathematics. This 1990 collection of review articles covers the considerable progress made in a wide range of applications such as relativity, integrable systems, differential and integral geometry and representation theory. The articles explore the wealth of geometric ideas which provide the unifying themes in twistor theory, from Penrose's quasi-local mass construction in relativity, to the study of conformally invariant differential operators, using techniques of representation theory.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1990
ISBN
9781107108257
Topic
Mathematics
Subtopic
Topology
Index
Mathematics

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series Page
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Preface
  6. Contents
  7. Twistor Theory After 25 Years — its Physical Status and Prospects
  8. Between Integral Geometry and Twistors
  9. Generalized Conformal Structures
  10. Riemannian Twistor Spaces and Holonomy Groups
  11. Twistors, Ambitwistors, and Conformal Gravity
  12. The Penrose Transform
  13. Notation for the Penrose Thansform
  14. The Twistor Transform
  15. Penrose's Quasi-local Mass
  16. The Sparling 3-form, Ashtekar Variables and Quasi-local Mass
  17. Twistors and Strings
  18. Integrable Systems in Twistor Theory
  19. Twistor Characterization of Stationary Axisymmetric Solutions of Einstein's Equations
  20. A Two-surface Encoding of Radiative Space-times
  21. Twistors, Massless Fields and the Penrose Transform
  22. Twistor Diagrams and Feynman Diagrams
  23. Cohomology and Twistor Diagrams
  24. Authors' Addresses