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Bowen Lectures: Twistor Cohomology and Physical Fields
Special Events| Speaker: | Roger Penrose, Oxford |
| Location: | 10 Evans, UCB |
| Start time: | Tue, Oct 8 2002, 4:00PM |
Description
Twistor theory presents unusual insights into the geometry of spacetime and
the nature of physical fields. It also provides valuable pure-mathematical
techniques in differential geometry, representation theory, and integrable
systems. These lectures will be aimed particularly at those applications of
twistor theory of relevance to the geometry and physics of the universe. In Lecture 2, the twistor representation of
massless fields in terms of twistor contour integrals and holomorphic sheaf
cohomology will be presented, as will ideas for generalizing this to massive
fields using multiple twistor expressions.
Lecture presented at UC Berkeley.