Flat twistor spaces, conformally flat manifolds and four-dimensional field theory

DOI10.1007/BF02096555zbMath0717.53058WikidataQ125763001 ScholiaQ125763001MaRDI QIDQ2638566

Michael A. Singer

Publication date: 1990

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theoryYang-Mills theoryDirac equationconformally flat four-manifoldstwistor description

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60)

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Cohomology of elementary states in twistor conformal field theory ⋮ A rigidity theorem for quaternionic Kähler manifolds ⋮ Four-dimensional Wess--Zumino--Witten actions ⋮ Holomorphic Chern-Simons-Witten theory: From 2D to 4D conformal field theories

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