
Twistors and Particles
L. P. Hughston(Author)
Springer (Publisher)
Published on 1. June 1979
Book
Paperback/Softback
VIII, 156 pages
978-3-540-09244-5 (ISBN)
Description
Introductory remarks.- Aspects of the geometry of twistor space.- Massive systems and their internal symmetries.- Twistor quantization: Zero rest mass fields.- Twistor quantization: Massive fields.- The low-lying baryons.- Mesons, resonances, and bound states.- Leptons and weak interactions.- Sheaves and cohomology.- Applications of complex manifold techniques to elementary particle physics.
More details
Series
Edition
1979 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin
Germany
Publishing group
Springer Berlin
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
2 s/w Abbildungen
VIII, 156 p. 2 illus.
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 170 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
302 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-540-09244-5 (9783540092445)
DOI
10.1007/BFb0012342
Schweitzer Classification
Content
Introductory remarks.- Aspects of the geometry of twistor space.- Massive systems and their internal symmetries.- Twistor quantization: Zero rest mass fields.- Twistor quantization: Massive fields.- The low-lying baryons.- Mesons, resonances, and bound states.- Leptons and weak interactions.- Sheaves and cohomology.- Applications of complex manifold techniques to elementary particle physics.