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

Table des matières

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.

A propos de l'auteur

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

Résumé

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

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: L. Hughston, L.P. Hughston, Hughston L., P.Z. Kobak, L.J. Mason
• Edition: Taylor and Francis
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 04.04.1995
• EAN: 9780582004658
• ISBN: 978-0-582-00465-8
• Pages: 288
• Poids: 453 g
• Thème: Chapman & Hall/CRC Research Notes in Mathematics Series
• Catégories: Sciences naturelles, médecine, informatique, technique > Mathématiques > Géométrie; MATHEMATICS / Geometry / Algebraic, MATHEMATICS / Geometry / Analytic, Algebraic Geometry, Analytic geometry