scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1182479

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Authors Roger Penrose

Publication date 15 April 2002

zbMATH Keywords

Einstein equationsgeneral relativityquantum theoryspace-timespinspinorstwistor theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Twistor theory, double fibrations (complex-analytic aspects) (32L25) Applications of holomorphic fiber spaces to the sciences (32L81) Spin and Spin({}^c) geometry (53C27) Twistor methods in differential geometry (53C28) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60)

Review text

The author reflects on the following themes: 1. Geometry, and the roots and aims of twistor theory. 2. Towards a twistor description of Einsteinian physics. 3. Further issues of physics and biology. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0890.00046].

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