ENGLISH

Twistor geometry and field theory

By R. S. Ward , Raymond O. Wells Jr

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1990
ISBN
9780521268905, 0-521-26890-7
LCC
QC173.75.T85 W37 1990
Open Library ID
OL2400990M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
4 MB (4554932 bytes)
Series
Cambridge monographs on mathematical physics
Pages
528\528
Library
mexmat
Time added
2009-07-20 03:45:11
Физика;Квантовая физика;Физика элементарных частиц

Description

This book deals with the twistor treatment of certain linear and non-linear partial differential equations in mathematical physics. The description in terms of twistors involves algebraic and differential geometry, and several complex variables, and results in a different kind of setting that gives a new perspective on the properties of space-time and field theories. The book is designed to be used by mathematicians and physicists and so the authors have made it reasonably self-contained. The first part contains a development of the necessary mathematical background. In the second part, Yang-Mills fields and gravitational fields (the basic fields of contemporary physics) are described at the classical level. In the final part, the mathematics and physics are married to solve a number of field-theoretical problems.

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