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Palatial twistor theory and the twistor googly problem

Authors: Penrose, Roger;

Palatial twistor theory and the twistor googly problem

Abstract

A key obstruction to the twistor programme has been its so-called ‘googly problem’, unresolved for nearly 40 years, which asks for a twistor description ofright-handed interacting massless fields (positive helicity), using the same twistor conventions that give rise toleft-handed fields (negative helicity) in the standard ‘nonlinear graviton’ and Ward constructions. An explicit proposal for resolving this obstruction—palatial twistor theory—is put forward (illustrated in the case of gravitation). This incorporates the concept of a non-commutative holomorphicquantizedtwistor ‘Heisenberg algebra’, extending the sheaves of holomorphic functions of conventional twistor theory to include the operators of twistor differentiation.

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Applications of differential geometry to physics, Twistor methods in differential geometry, Twistor theory, double fibrations (complex-analytic aspects), Methods of noncommutative geometry in general relativity, Noncommutative geometry in quantum theory, Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism, Spinor and twistor methods applied to problems in quantum theory

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