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In this paper we study the twistor space $Z$ of an oriented Riemannian four-manifold $M$ using the moving frame approach, focusing, in particular, on the Einstein, non-self-dual setting. We prove that any general first-order linear…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-09-12 Giovanni Catino , Davide Dameno , Paolo Mastrolia

We investigate the integrability of almost complex structures on the twistor space of an almost quaternionic manifold constructed with the help of a quaternionic connection. We show that if there is an integrable structure it is independent…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Stefan Ivanov , Ivan Minchev , Simeon Zamkovoy

We study the twistor spaces of toric ALE gravitational instantons of type $A_{2n-1}$ and the associated non-standard minitwistor spaces introduced by Hitchin. By analyzing the base locus of the linear system that induces the quotient…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Nobuhiro Honda

We consider the twistor description of conformal higher spin theories and give twistor space actions for the self-dual sector of theories with spin greater than two that produce the correct flat space-time spectrum. We identify a ghost-free…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-11-22 Philipp Haehnel , Tristan McLoughlin

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

We deal here with the geometry of the twistor fibration $\mathcal{Z} \to \bb{S}^3_1$ over the De Sitter 3-space. The total space $\mathcal{Z}$ is a five dimensional reductive homogeneous space with two canonical invariant almost CR…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-07-27 Eduardo Hulett

We study the holomorphic symplectic geometry of (the smooth locus of) the space of holomorphic sections of a twistor space with rotating circle action. The twistor space carries a line bundle with meromorphic connection constructed by…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-04 Florian Beck , Indranil Biswas , Sebastian Heller , Markus Röser

The twistor space of the moduli space of solutions of Hitchin's self-duality equations can be identified with the Deligne-Hitchin moduli space of $\lambda$-connections. We use real projective structures on Riemann surfaces to prove the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-03-03 Sebastian Heller

We investigate the geometry of a twisting non-shearing congruence of null geodesics on a conformal manifold of even dimension greater than four and Lorentzian signature. We give a necessary and sufficient condition on the Weyl tensor for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-09-01 Arman Taghavi-Chabert

The twistor construction is applied for obtaining examples of generalized complex structures (in the sense of N. Hitchin) that are not induced by a complex or a symplectic structure.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-11-11 Johann Davidov , Oleg Mushkarov

Let $X$ be a quasi-projective curve, compactified to $(Y,D)$ with $X=Y-D$. We construct a Deligne-Hitchin twistor space out of moduli spaces of framed $\lambda$-connections of rank $2$ over $Y$ with logarithmic singularities and…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-11-02 Carlos Simpson

We present a new set of asymptotic conditions for gravity at spatial infinity that includes gravitational magnetic-type solutions, allows for a non-trivial Hamiltonian action of the complete $BMS_4$ algebra, and leads to a non-divergent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-15 Marc Henneaux , Cédric Troessaert

We study complex 4-manifolds with holomorphic self-dual conformal structures, and we obtain an interpretation of the Weyl tensor of such a manifold as the projective curvature of a field of cones on the ambitwistor space. In particular, its…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 F. A. Belgun

We give a classification of toric anti-self-dual conformal structures on compact 4-orbifolds with positive Euler characteristic. Our proof is twistor theoretic: the interaction between the complex torus orbits in the twistor space and the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-09-22 Dominic Wright

Using Lorentz force equation as an input a Hamiltonian mechanics on the non-projective two twistor phase space TxT is formulated. Such a construction automatically reproduces dynamics of the intrinsic classical relativistic spin. The charge…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Andreas Bette

Let $X=\overline{X}-D$ be a smooth quasi-projective curve. In arXiv:2110.12300 we constructed a Deligne-Hitchin modui space with Hecke gauge groupoid for connections of rank $2$. We extend this construction to the case of any rank $r$,…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-03-27 Carlos Simpson

Twistor correspondences for R-invariant indefinite self-dual conformal structures on R^4 are established explicitly. These correspondences are written down by using a natural integral transform from functions on a two dimensional cylinder…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-01-18 Fuminori Nakata

In this expository paper we review some twistor techniques and recall the problem of finding compact differentiable manifolds that can carry both K\"ahler and non-K\"ahler complex structures. Such examples were constructed independently by…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-09-11 Ljudmila Kamenova

Vasiliev equations facilitate globally defined formulations of higher-spin gravity in various correspondence spaces associated with different phases of the theory. In the four-dimensional case this induces a map from a generally covariant…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-20 Nicolo Colombo , Per Sundell

Transport twistor spaces are degenerate complex $2$-dimensional manifolds $Z$ that complexify transport problems on Riemannian surfaces, appearing, e.g., in geometric inverse problems. This article considers maps $\beta\colon Z\to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-07 Jan Bohr , François Monard , Gabriel P. Paternain