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The spherical Radon-Dunkl transform $R_\kappa$, associated to weight functions invariant under a finite reflection group, is introduced, and some elementary properties are obtained in terms of $h$-harmonics. Several inversion formulas of…

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We study integral transforms mapping a function on the Euclidean space to the family of its integration on some hypersurfaces, that is, a function of hypersurfaces. The hypersurfaces are given by the graphs of functions with fixed axes of…

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We discuss chiral zero-rest-mass field equations on six-dimensional space-time from a twistorial point of view. Specifically, we present a detailed cohomological analysis, develop both Penrose and Penrose-Ward transforms, and analyse the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-25 Christian Saemann , Martin Wolf

These notes are based on my lectures given at $\text{ST}^4$ 2025 held at IISER Bhopal. We study the application of spinor and twistor methods to three dimensional conformal field theories in these notes. They are divided into three parts…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-01 Dhruva K. S

There is a classical geometric construction which uses a binary quadratic form to define an involution on the space of binary d-ics. We give a complete characterization of a general class of such involutions which are definable using…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-03-25 Abdelmalek Abdesselam , Jaydeep Chipalkatti

Gauge-invariant twistor variables are found for the massive spinning particle with N-extended local worldline supersymmetry, in spacetime dimensions D=3,4,6. The twistor action is manifestly Lorentz invariant but the anticommuting spin…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-20 Luca Mezincescu , Alasdair J. Routh , Paul K. Townsend

Recently, conformal field theories in six dimensions were discussed from the twistorial point of view. In particular, it was demonstrated that the twistor transform between chiral zero-rest-mass fields and cohomology classes on twistor…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 Tatiana A. Ivanova , Olaf Lechtenfeld , Alexander D. Popov , Maike Tormaehlen

In this article, we give a geometric description for any invertible operator on a finite dimensional inner--product space. With the aid of such a description, we are able to decompose any given conformal transformation as a product of…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2013-09-24 Srikanth K. V. , Raj Bhawan Yadav

We consider four (real or complex) dimensional hyper-K\"ahler metrics with a conformal symmetry K. The three-dimensional space of orbits of K is shown to have an Einstein-Weyl structure which admits a shear-free geodesics congruence for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Maciej Dunajski , Paul Tod

This is an elementary and self--contained review of twistor theory as a geometric tool for solving non-linear differential equations. Solutions to soliton equations like KdV, Tzitzeica, integrable chiral model, BPS monopole or Sine-Gordon…

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Scalar curvature invariants are studied in type N solutions of vacuum Einstein's equations with in general non-vanishing cosmological constant Lambda. Zero-order invariants which include only the metric and Weyl (Riemann) tensor either…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 J. Bicak , V. Pravda

The study of three dimensional CFT correlators in twistor space has recently garnered a significant interest. Conformal symmetry acts linearly in the twistor space, which streamlines the analysis. Moreover, twistors provide a connection to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-05 Deep Mazumdar

The demand to know the structure of functionally independent invariants of tensor fields arises in many problems of theoretical and mathematical physics, for instance for the construction of interacting higher-order tensor field actions. In…

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Massless spinning correlators in cosmology are extremely complicated. In contrast, the scattering amplitudes of massless particles with spin are very simple. We propose that the reason for the unreasonable complexity of these correlators…

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Fourier transforms of Lorentz invariant functions in Minkowski space, with support on both the timelike and the spacelike domains are performed by means of direct integration. The cases of 1+1 and 1+2 dimensions are worked out in detail,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Alexander Wurm , Nurit Krausz , Cecile DeWitt-Morette , Marcus Berg

We study a class of algebras with non-Lie commutation relations whose symplectic leaves are surfaces of revolution: a cylinder or a torus. Over each of such surfaces we introduce a family of complex structures and Hilbert spaces of…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 M. V. Karasev , E. M. Novikova

In a general and non metrical framework, we introduce the class of co-CR quaternionic manifolds, which contains the class of quaternionic manifolds, whilst in dimension three it particularizes to give the Einstein-Weyl spaces. We show that…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-06-28 Stefano Marchiafava , Radu Pantilie

We extend the method for constructing symmetry operators of higher order for two-dimensional quantum Hamiltonians by Kalnins, Kress and Miller (2010). This expansion method expresses the integral in a finite power series in terms of lower…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-05-26 Ian Marquette , Anthony Parr

We generalize the geometric structures generated by Witten's ground ring. It is shown that these generalized structures involve in a natural way some geometric constructions from Self-dual gravity [1,12]. The formal twistor construction on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-10-11 H. Garcia-Compean , J. F. Plebanski , M. Przanowski