S. A. Huggett, K. P. Tod

An Introduction to Twistor Theory

Second Edition

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is an introduction to twistor theory and modern geometrical approaches to space-time structure at the graduate or advanced undergraduate level.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Revised
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 439g
• ISBN-13: 9780521451574
• ISBN-10: 0521451574
• Artikelnr.: 23509326

Inhaltsangabe

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.