Twistor theory on a finite graph

DOI10.1007/S00220-011-1245-6zbMATH Open1216.81090arXiv1002.0337OpenAlexW1981443308MaRDI QIDQ543369FDOQ543369

Authors: Paul Baird, Mohammad Wehbe 

Publication date: 17 June 2011

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

Abstract: We show how the description of a shear-free ray congruence in Minkowski space as an evolving family of semi-conformal mappings can naturally be formulated on a finite graph. For this, we introduce the notion of holomorphic function on a graph. On a regular coloured graph of degree three, we recover the space-time picture. In the spirit of twistor theory, where a light ray is the more fundamental object from which space-time points should be derived, the line graph, whose points are the edges of the original graph, should be considered as the basic object. The Penrose twistor correspondence is discussed in this context.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1002.0337

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Twistor theory, double fibrations (complex-analytic aspects) (32L25) Twistor methods in differential geometry (53C28)

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