Introduction to Twistor Theory

Klappentext This book is an introduction to twistor theory and modern geometrical approaches to space-time structure at the graduate or advanced undergraduate level. Zusammenfassung This text is an introduction to twistor theory and modern geometrical approaches to space-time structure at the graduate or advanced undergraduate level. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. Review of tensor algebra; 3. Lorentzian spinors at a point; 4. Spinor fields; 5. Compactified Minkowski space; 6. The geometry of null congruences; 7. The geometry of twistor space; 8. Solving the zero rest mass equations I; 9. Sheaf cohomology; 10. Solving the zero rest mass equations II; 11. The twisted photon and Yang-Mills constructions; 12. The non-linear graviton; 13. Penrose's quasi-local momentum; 14. Cohomological functionals; 15. Further developments and conclusion; Appendix: The GHP equations.

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• Authors: Professor S. A Tod Huggett, S. A. Huggett, S. A. (University of Plymouth) Tod Huggett, Stephen A. Tod Huggett, K. P. Tod
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.07.1994
• EAN: 9780521451574
• ISBN: 978-0-521-45157-4
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Comparati; Cambridge Studies in Comparati
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Mathematics > Geometry