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Twistor Theory

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An overview of ideas and progress in twistor theory is presented. Penrose twistors describe more directly the structures of space-time thought to survive quantization than continuum properties. They also yield a complexified picture of spacetime. A twistor in complex Minkowski space-time is represented by a totally null 2-plane. The interpretation of twistors in complex curved space-times and some of their applications are discussed. A brief account is finally given of the description of massive particles in twistor theory.

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  1. High-Energy Physics Department, Central Research Institute for Physics, H-1525, Budapest, P.O.B.49, Hungary

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  1. Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow, USSR

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Perjés, Z. (1984). Twistor Theory. In: Markov, M.A., West, P.C. (eds) Quantum Gravity. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2701-1_30

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