Twistor Geometry and Field Theory (Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics)

This book deals with the twistor treatment of certain linear and non-linear partial differential equations. The description in terms of twistors involves algebraic and differential geometry, algebraic topology and results in a new perspective on the properties of space and time. The authors firstly develop the mathematical background, then go on to discuss Yang-Mills fields and gravitational fields in classical language, and in the final part a number of field-theoretic problems are solved. Issued here for the first time in paperback, this self-contained volume should be of use to graduate mathematicians and physicists and research workers in theoretical physics, relativity, and cosmology.Ward, Richard Samuel is the author of 'Twistor Geometry and Field Theory (Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics)', published 1990 under ISBN 9780521268905 and ISBN 0521268907.