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Twistor theory --- 514.8 --- Geometric study of objects of mechanics and physics --- Twistor theory. --- 514.8 Geometric study of objects of mechanics and physics --- Twistors --- Congruences (Geometry) --- Field theory (Physics) --- Space and time --- Space-time model --- Special relativity

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This book is an introduction to twistor theory and modern geometrical approaches to space-time structure at the graduate or advanced undergraduate level. The choice of material presented has evolved from graduate lectures given in London and Oxford and the authors have aimed to retain the informal tone of those lectures. The book will provide graduate students with an introduction to the literature of twistor theory, presupposing some knowledge of special relativity and differential geometry. It would also be of use for a short course on space-time structure independently of twistor theory. The physicist could be introduced gently to some of the mathematics which has proved useful in these areas, and the mathematician could be shown where sheaf cohomology and complex manifold theory can be used in physics.

Twistor theory. --- Twistors --- Congruences (Geometry) --- Field theory (Physics) --- Space and time --- Twistor theory --- Torseurs, théorie des

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General relativity (Physics)