Twistor Geometry and Field Theory

R. S. Ward, Jr Wells Raymond O. (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

532 Seiten

1991
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-42268-0 (ISBN)

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This study deals with the twistor treatment of linear and non-linear partial differential equations. The authors develop the mathematical background, go on to discuss Yang Mills fields and gravitational fields in classical language and finish by solving a number of field-theoretic problems.

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.

Part I. Geometry: 1. Klein correspondence; 2. Fibre bundles; 3. Differential geometry; 4. Integral geometry; Part II. Field Theory: 5. Linear field theory; 6. Gauge theory; 7. General relativity; Part III. The Penrose Transform: 8. Massless free fields; 9. Self-dual gauge fields; 10. Self-dual space-times; 11. General gauge fields; 12. Stationary axisymmetric space-times; Special topics.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	26.7.1991
Reihe/Serie	Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	150 x 228 mm
Gewicht	770 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Relativitätstheorie
ISBN-10	0-521-42268-X / 052142268X
ISBN-13	978-0-521-42268-0 / 9780521422680
Zustand	Neuware