Twistor correspondence

In mathematical physics, the twistor correspondence is a natural isomorphism between massless Yang-Mills fields on Minkowski space and sheaf cohomology classes on a real hypersurface of CP³.

Topics of twistor theory

Objectives

Principles	Invariance mechanics Background independence

Final objective	Quantum Gravity Theory of Everything

Mathematical concepts

Twistors	Penrose transform Twistor space

Physical concepts

Twistor string theory
Twistor correspondence
Twistor theory

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