The central programme of twistor theory

DOI10.1016/S0960-0779(98)00333-6zbMATH Open0994.81049OpenAlexW2084861574MaRDI QIDQ1610032FDOQ1610032

Authors: Roger Penrose 

Publication date: 18 August 2002

Published in: Chaos, Solitons and Fractals (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/s0960-0779(98)00333-6

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zbMATH Keywords

quantum gravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Twistor theory, double fibrations (complex-analytic aspects) (32L25) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to quantum theory (81-02) Spinor and twistor methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R25) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60)

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