Twistor surfaces and right-flat spaces

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Dec 1978 United Kingdom English Publisher:Springer Science and Business Media LLCJournal:General Relativity and Gravitation, volume 9, pages 1,129-1,142 (issn: 0001-7701, eissn: 1572-9532,

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Authors: Newman, E; Porter, J; Tod, K;

doi: 10.1007/bf00756579

Twistor surfaces and right-flat spaces

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Abstract

The connection between the deformed twistor space of Penrose and Plebanski's form for the general right-flat metric is explored. A Hamiltonian formalism for obtaining the twistor surfaces in a right-flat space with Plebanski's Ω-function as Hamiltonian is obtained.

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Hamiltonian formalism, Local differential geometry of Lorentz metrics, indefinite metrics, General relativity, Riemannian metric, twistor surfaces, right-flat spaces, Riemann tensor

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