The Penrose Transform: Its Interaction with Representation Theory

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Clarendon Press, 1989 - Broj stranica: 213
During the past two decades, Roger Penrose's twistor theory has been a continuing source of mathematical inspiration. It is an ambitious theory which aims to reformulate the foundations of physics using conformal and complex geometry. At the heart of twistor theory lies a geometrical transformnow known as the Penrose transform. This book is an exposition of this transform in a fairly general setting. This setting is provided by complex homogeneous spaces and the mathematical input is taken from the representation theory of Lie groups. The book consists mainly of original research notpublished elsewhere and is intended for physicists and mathematicians with interests in geometry and symmetry. Whilst the material is presented in full generality, there are many examples throughout and special attention is directed towards the twistor theory of Minkowski space.

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Introduction
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Lie Algebras and Flag Manifolds
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Robert J.BastonUniversity Lecturer in Pure MathematicsUniversity of Oxford.

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