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This chapter is an introduction to some aspects of twistor geometry and the twistor space description of space-time conformal field theories.

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Twistor Space Holomorphic Section Embed Line Incidence Relation Twistor Line 

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• Mathew Richard Bullimore
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1. 1.Mathematical InstituteRadcliffe Observatory QuarterOxfordUK