Further Advances in Twistor Theory - Volume II: Integrable Systems, Conformal Geometry and Gravitation

List of contents

Part 1 Sources and fields: zero-rest-mass fields and Penrose transform; massive fields - applications of twistor theory to elementary particle models, supersymmetry, and string theories; progress in twistor diagram theory and scattering amplitude evaluation; sources and currents - relative cohomology and non-Hansdorff manifolds; twistors and spinors in higher dimensions. Part 2 Curved twistor spaces: quasi-local mass; the Googly graviton; hypersurface twistors and Cauchy-Riemann structures; spaces of null geodiscs; other applications to classical and quantum gravity.

About the author

L.J. Mason, L.P. Hughston, P.Z. Kobak

Summary

Twistor theory is the remarkable mathematical framework that was discovered by Roger Penrose in the course of research into gravitation and quantum theory

Product details

• Authors: L. Hughston, L.P. Hughston, Hughston L., P.Z. Kobak, L.J. Mason
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.04.1995
• EAN: 9780582004658
• ISBN: 978-0-582-00465-8
• No. of pages: 288
• Weight: 453 g
• Series: Chapman & Hall/CRC Research Notes in Mathematics Series
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Mathematics > Geometry; MATHEMATICS / Geometry / Algebraic, MATHEMATICS / Geometry / Analytic, Algebraic Geometry, Analytic geometry