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Twistor space, Minkowski space and the conformal group (English)
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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.
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Minkowski space
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symmetry group
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twistors
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