Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- 1 Twistor Theory After 25 Years—its Physical Status and Prospects
- 2 Between Integral Geometry and Twistors
- 3 Generalized Conformal Structures
- 4 Riemannian Twistor Spaces and Holonomy Groups
- 5 Twistors, Ambitwistors, and Conformal Gravity
- 6 The Penrose Transform
- 7 Notation for the Penrose Transform
- 8 The Twistor Transform
- 9 Invariant Operators
- 10 Penrose's Quasi-local Mass
- 11 The Sparling 3-form, Ashtekar Variables and Quasi-local Mass
- 12 Twistors and Strings
- 13 Integrable Systems in Twistor Theory
- 14 Twistor Characterization of Stationary Axisymmetric Solutions of Einstein's Equations
- 15 A Two-surface Encoding of Radiative Space-times
- 16 Twistors, Massless Fields and the Penrose Transform
- 17 Twistor Diagrams and Feynman Diagrams
- 18 Cohomology and Twistor Diagrams
- Authors' addresses
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2013
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- 1 Twistor Theory After 25 Years—its Physical Status and Prospects
- 2 Between Integral Geometry and Twistors
- 3 Generalized Conformal Structures
- 4 Riemannian Twistor Spaces and Holonomy Groups
- 5 Twistors, Ambitwistors, and Conformal Gravity
- 6 The Penrose Transform
- 7 Notation for the Penrose Transform
- 8 The Twistor Transform
- 9 Invariant Operators
- 10 Penrose's Quasi-local Mass
- 11 The Sparling 3-form, Ashtekar Variables and Quasi-local Mass
- 12 Twistors and Strings
- 13 Integrable Systems in Twistor Theory
- 14 Twistor Characterization of Stationary Axisymmetric Solutions of Einstein's Equations
- 15 A Two-surface Encoding of Radiative Space-times
- 16 Twistors, Massless Fields and the Penrose Transform
- 17 Twistor Diagrams and Feynman Diagrams
- 18 Cohomology and Twistor Diagrams
- Authors' addresses
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- Twistors in Mathematics and Physics , pp. vii - viiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1990