defines projective twistor space to be the space of projective pure spinors for the conformal group. In its original form, twistor theory encodes physical...
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topological B model string theory in twistor space. It was initially proposed by Edward Witten in 2003. Twistor theory was introduced by Roger Penrose from...
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The axial twist theory (a.k.a. axial twist hypothesis) is a proposed scientific theory that has been proposed to explain a range of unusual aspects of...
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Quantum gravity (redirect from Quantum theory of gravity)
lesser-known but no less important theories include causal dynamical triangulation, noncommutative geometry, and twistor theory. One of the difficulties of formulating...
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twistor in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Twistor may refer to: Twistor correspondence Twistor memory Twistor space Twistor string theory Twistor theory...
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theoretical physics (especially twistor theory), twistor space is the complex vector space of solutions of the twistor equation ∇ A ′ ( A Ω B ) = 0 {\displaystyle...
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Complex analysis (redirect from Theory of analytic functions)
the branches of hydrodynamics, thermodynamics, quantum mechanics, and twistor theory. By extension, use of complex analysis also has applications in engineering...
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in 1975 for research on twistor theory supervised by Roger Penrose. Since the early 1970s, Hodges has worked on twistor theory, which is the approach to...
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quantum teleportation. Jozsa received his Doctor of Philosophy degree on twistor theory at Oxford, under the supervision of Roger Penrose. Jozsa has held previous...
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Penrose transform (redirect from Twistor transform)
space in question is the twistor space, a geometrical space naturally associated to the original spacetime, and the twistor transform is also geometrically...
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Amplituhedron (category Scattering theory)
In mathematics and theoretical physics (especially twistor string theory), an amplituhedron is a geometric structure introduced in 2013 by Nima Arkani-Hamed...
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rotation or Penrose–Terrell rotation. In 1967, Penrose invented the twistor theory, which maps geometric objects in Minkowski space into the 4-dimensional...
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Twistor theory — Yang–Mills theory Music: Music theory Philosophy: Proof theory — Speculative reason — Theory of truth — Type theory — Value theory —...
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In physics, a unified field theory (UFT) is a type of field theory that allows all fundamental forces and elementary particles to be written in terms of...
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Surgery theory Teichmüller theory Theory of equations Theory of statistics Topos theory Transcendental number theory Twistor theory Type theory Wheel theory...
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Loop quantum gravity (redirect from Quantum loop theory)
Ashtekar variables, Laurent Freidel, Simone Speziale, et al., spinors and twistor theory with loop quantum gravity, and Lee Smolin et al. with Verlinde entropic...
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Peter Woit (section Criticism of string theory)
mathematician who works in twistor theory. He works in the mathematics department at Columbia University. Woit, a critic of string theory, has published a book...
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Mechanical explanations of gravitation (redirect from Vortex theory of gravity)
Mechanical explanations of gravitation (or kinetic theories of gravitation) are attempts to explain the action of gravity by aid of basic mechanical processes...
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that this classical description can be derived from twistor theory, by assigning a pair of twistors to each link of the graph, and suitably constraining...
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A theory of everything (TOE), final theory, ultimate theory, unified field theory, or master theory is a hypothetical singular, all-encompassing, coherent...
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manifold Calabi–Yau manifold Gravitational instanton Hyperkähler quotient Twistor theory Calabi, Eugenio (1979). "Métriques kählériennes et fibrés holomorphes"...
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R. S. Ward, eds (1979) Advances in Twistor Theory, Pitman. ISBN 0-273-08448-8. L. P. Hughston (1980) The Twistor Particle Programme, Surveys in High...
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General relativity (redirect from General theory of relativity)
the lattice theory of gravity based on the Feynman Path Integral approach and Regge calculus, dynamical triangulations, causal sets, twistor models or the...
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caused the problems in the first place. Twistor space is the geometry that results from solutions of twistor equations. In 1967 Roger Penrose developed...
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theoretical physics, the Einstein–Cartan theory, also known as the Einstein–Cartan–Sciama–Kibble theory, is a classical theory of gravitation, one of several alternatives...
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networks and twistor theory. Jorge Pullin: physicist who helped develop loop quantum gravity, co-author of Loops, Knots, Gauge Theories and Quantum Gravity...
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Pioneers of gravitational theory In physics, theories of gravitation postulate mechanisms of interaction governing the movements of bodies with mass....
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Penrose has credited him as an important influence in the development of twistor theory, through his construction of the so-called Robinson congruences. Astrophysical...
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Pure spinor (section Supersymmetric Yang Mills theory)
generalizations of twistor theory, introduced by Roger Penrose in the 1960s. They have been applied to the study of supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory in 10D, superstrings...
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Newton's law of universal gravitation (redirect from Newton's theory of gravitation)
gravity, there were many theories explaining gravity. Philosophers made observations about things falling down − and developed theories why they do – as early...
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