Twistor geometry and field theory

This book deals with the twistor treatment of certain linear and non-linear partial differential equations. The description in terms of twistors involves algebraic and differential geometry, algebraic topology and results in a new perspective on the properties of space and time. The authors firstly...

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Main Authors: Ward, R. S., Wells, R. O. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1990
Series:Cambridge monographs on mathematical physics
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Collection: Cambridge Books Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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520 |a This book deals with the twistor treatment of certain linear and non-linear partial differential equations. The description in terms of twistors involves algebraic and differential geometry, algebraic topology and results in a new perspective on the properties of space and time. The authors firstly develop the mathematical background, then go on to discuss Yang-Mills fields and gravitational fields in classical language, and in the final part a number of field-theoretic problems are solved. Issued here for the first time in paperback, this self-contained volume should be of use to graduate mathematicians and physicists and research workers in theoretical physics, relativity, and cosmology