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Abstract
A key obstruction to the twistor programme has been its so-called 'googly problem', unresolved for nearly 40 years, which asks for a twistor description of right-handed interacting massless fields (positive helicity), using the same twistor conventions that give rise to left-handed fields (negative helicity) in the standard 'nonlinear graviton' and Ward constructions. An explicit proposal for resolving this obstruction--palatial twistor theory--is put forward (illustrated in the case of gravitation). This incorporates the concept of a non-commutative holomorphic quantized twistor 'Heisenberg algebra', extending the sheaves of holomorphic functions of conventional twistor theory to include the operators of twistor differentiation.Keywords: Einstein equations; curved space–times; non-commutative geometry; twistor theory
Year: 2015 PMID: 26124255 DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2014.0237
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Philos Trans A Math Phys Eng Sci ISSN: 1364-503X Impact factor: 4.226