Buch, Englisch, 530 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 854 g
Buch, Englisch, 530 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 854 g
Reihe: Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics
ISBN: 978-0-521-42268-0
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
This book deals with the twistor treatment of certain linear and non-linear partial differential equations. The description in terms of twistors involves algebraic and differential geometry, algebraic topology and results in a new perspective on the properties of space and time. The authors firstly develop the mathematical background, then go on to discuss Yang-Mills fields and gravitational fields in classical language, and in the final part a number of field-theoretic problems are solved. Issued here for the first time in paperback, this self-contained volume should be of use to graduate mathematicians and physicists and research workers in theoretical physics, relativity, and cosmology.
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Part I. Geometry: 1. Klein correspondence; 2. Fibre bundles; 3. Differential geometry; 4. Integral geometry; Part II. Field Theory: 5. Linear field theory; 6. Gauge theory; 7. General relativity; Part III. The Penrose Transform: 8. Massless free fields; 9. Self-dual gauge fields; 10. Self-dual space-times; 11. General gauge fields; 12. Stationary axisymmetric space-times; Special topics.
