Twistors and Particles

Introductory remarks.- Aspects of the geometry of twistor space.- Massive systems and their internal symmetries.- Twistor quantization: Zero rest mass fields.- Twistor quantization: Massive fields.- The low-lying baryons.- Mesons, resonances, and bound states.- Leptons and weak interactions.- Sheaves and cohomology.- Applications of complex manifold techniques to elementary particle physics.

List of contents

Introductory remarks.- Aspects of the geometry of twistor space.- Massive systems and their internal symmetries.- Twistor quantization: Zero rest mass fields.- Twistor quantization: Massive fields.- The low-lying baryons.- Mesons, resonances, and bound states.- Leptons and weak interactions.- Sheaves and cohomology.- Applications of complex manifold techniques to elementary particle physics.

Product details

• Authors: L P Hughston, L. P. Hughston
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.04.2014
• EAN: 9783540092445
• ISBN: 978-3-540-09244-5
• No. of pages: 156
• Dimensions: 142 mm x 246 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 301 g
• Illustrations: VIII, 156 p. 2 illus.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics; Lecture Notes in Physics
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Theoretical physics