Twistor space, Minkowski space and the conformal group (Q1074893): Difference between revisions

Although twistors describe the geometry of Minkowski space, the symmetry of compactified Minkowski space is not that of twistor space, but the latter is four-one homomorphic to the part of the former which is connected to the identity. To clarify this puzzle it is shown here that a better definition of a symmetry group for twistors is the group of transformations of projective space which preserve orthogonality; this is isomorphic to the Minkowski symmetry group.