Gravity, twistors and the MHV formalism

DOI10.1007/s00220-009-0972-4zbMath1226.81146arXiv0808.3907MaRDI QIDQ625472

David Skinner, Lionel J. Mason

Publication date: 17 February 2011

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0808.3907

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

83E50: Supergravity

81T18: Feynman diagrams

81T20: Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds

81V17: Gravitational interaction in quantum theory

83C45: Quantization of the gravitational field

81R25: Spinor and twistor methods applied to problems in quantum theory

14D20: Algebraic moduli problems, moduli of vector bundles

53C28: Twistor methods in differential geometry

83C35: Gravitational waves

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