description: During the past two decades, Roger Penrose's twistor theory has been a continuing source of mathematical inspiration. This ambitious theory aims to reformulate the foundations of physics using conformal and complex geometry. At the heart of twistor theory lies a geometrical transform know asthe Penrose transform. This book provides coverage of this transform in a general setting, utilizing complex homogeneous spaces, with mathematical input taken from the representation theory of Lie groups. The Penrose Transform gives readers much original research that is not available in anyother text, with special attention to the twistor theory of Minkowski space.
language: English
title: The Penrose Transform: Its Interaction with Representation Theory
titlecomplete: The Penrose Transform: Its Interaction with Representation Theory (Oxford Mathematical Monographs)
publisher: Oxford University Press