Twistor geometry of light rays

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/14/1A/023zbMATH Open0867.32008OpenAlexW2163515730MaRDI QIDQ4332355FDOQ4332355

Authors: Roger Penrose 

Publication date: 13 February 1997

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/14/1a/023

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zbMATH Keywords

Minkowski spacetwistor methodslight rays

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Twistor theory, double fibrations (complex-analytic aspects) (32L25) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60)

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