Remark concerning the twistor formulation of a massless particle, and the division algebras

DOI10.1007/BF00398173zbMATH Open0651.53009OpenAlexW2003789918MaRDI QIDQ1106479FDOQ1106479

Authors: R. Foot, G. C. Joshi 

Publication date: 1988

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00398173

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zbMATH Keywords

momentumtwistorspinorsLorentz groupmassless particle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonassociative division algebras (17A35) Spin and Spin({}^c) geometry (53C27) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80)

Cites Work

• Lagrangian mechanics of massless particles with spin.

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• Twistor formulation of a massive particle with rigidity
• A no-go theorem for the n-twistor description of a massive particle
• Hurwitz theorem and parallelizable spheres from tensor analysis

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