Complex Geometry of Nature and General Relativity
by Giampiero Esposito
Publisher: arXiv 1999
Number of pages: 229
Description:
An attempt is made of giving a self-contained introduction to holomorphic ideas in general relativity, following work over the last thirty years by several authors. The main topics are complex manifolds, spinor and twistor methods, heaven spaces.
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