Selfdual 4-manifolds, projective surfaces, and the Dunajski-West construction

DOI10.3842/SIGMA.2014.035zbMath1288.53075arXivmath/0606754MaRDI QIDQ2447893

David M. J. Calderbank

Publication date: 29 April 2014

Published in: SIGMA. Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0606754

zbMATH Keywords

integrable systems; projective geometry; twistor theory; selfduality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

53C80: Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences

53C25: Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.)

83C20: Classes of solutions; algebraically special solutions, metrics with symmetries for problems in general relativity and gravitational theory

32L25: Twistor theory, double fibrations (complex-analytic aspects)

37K25: Relations of infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian dynamical systems with topology, geometry and differential geometry

53C28: Twistor methods in differential geometry

83C60: Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism

70S15: Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in mechanics of particles and systems

37K65: Hamiltonian systems on groups of diffeomorphisms and on manifolds of mappings and metrics

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