1st Edition

Twistor Theory

Edited By Stephen Huggett Copyright 1995
288 Pages
by CRC Press

284 Pages
by CRC Press

288 Pages
by Routledge

Presents the proceedings of the recently held conference at the University of Plymouth. Papers describe recent work by leading researchers in twistor theory and cover a wide range of subjects, including conformal invariants, integral transforms, Einstein equations, anti-self-dual Riemannian 4-manifolds, deformation theory, 4-dimensional conformal structures, and more.;The book is intended for... Read more

Preface

Contributors

Thomas' D-calculus, Parabolic Invariant Theory, and Conformal Invariants

T. N. Bailey

Cohomogeneity-One Kahler Metrics

Andrew S. Dancer and Ian A. B. Strachan

Another Integral Transform in Twistor Theory

Michael Eastwood

Twistors and Spin-3/2 Potentials in Quantum Gravity

Giampiero Esposito and Giuseppe Pollifrone

Analytic Cohomology of Blown-up Twistor Spaces

Robin Horan

Geometric Aspects of Quantum Mechanics

L. P. Hughston

Anti-Self-Dual Riemannian 4-Manifolds

Claude LeBrun

Generalized Twist-or Correspondence, d-Bar Problems, and the KP equations

L. J. Mason

Relative Deformation Theory and Differential Geometry

Sergey A. Merkulov

Self-duality and Connected Sums of Complex Projective Planes

Henrik Pedersen

Twistors and the Einstein Equations

Roger Penrose

Remarks on the Period Mapping for 4-dimensional Conformal Structures

Michael Singer

Cohomogeneity-One Metrics with Self-Dual Weyl Tensor

K. P. Tod

Twistor Theory and Isomonodromy

N. M. J. Woodhouse

Appendixes

Geometry of Relative Deformations. I

Sergey A. Merkulov

Geometry of Relative Deformations. II

Sergey A. Merkulov and Henrik Pedersen

Index

Biography

Stephen Huggett