Twistor geometry and field theory / R.S. Ward, Raymond O. Wells, Jr.
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TextSeries: Cambridge monographs on mathematical physicsPublisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1990Description: 1 online resource (x, 520 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)Content type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780511524493 (ebook)
- Twistor Geometry & Field Theory
- 512/.33 19
- QC173.75.T85 W37 1990
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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.
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