Twistor bundles and gauge action principles of gravitation

DOI10.1063/1.525519zbMath0518.53031MaRDI QIDQ3667540

Marcos Rosenbaum, Charles P. Luehr

Publication date: 1982

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.525519

zbMATH Keywords

Einstein-Cartan theory; affine connection; Poincare group; infinity twistor; internal gauge group; spinor gauge theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

83C05: Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems)

53C80: Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences

53B50: Applications of local differential geometry to the sciences

53D50: Geometric quantization

53B30: Local differential geometry of Lorentz metrics, indefinite metrics

55R10: Fiber bundles in algebraic topology

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Eight-dimensional spinor representation of the Poincaré group, Supertwistor fiber bundles as a formalism for supergravities, Supertwistor realization of SU(2,2/1)

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