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Ingoing and outgoing principal null geodesics in Kerr spacetimes are characterized as part of parametrized families of strings in complex Kerr geometry and are associated with holomorphic curves in twistor space with help of the Kerr…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-09 Christian Kunz

We review the algebraic field theory based completely on a nonlinear generalization of the CR complex analiticity conditions to the noncommutative algebra of biquaternions. Any biquaternionic field possesses natural twistor structure and,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Vladimir V. Kassandrov

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

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

This paper is intended to describe twistors via the paravector model of Clifford algebras and to relate such description to conformal maps in the Clifford algebra over R(4,1), besides pointing out some applications of the pure spinor…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Roldao da Rocha , Jayme Vaz

The quotient of the conformal group of Euclidean 4-space by its Weyl subgroup results in a geometry possessing many of the properties of relativistic phase space, including both a natural symplectic form and non-degenerate Killing metric.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-07-02 Jeffrey S Hazboun , James T Wheeler

This article gives a study of the higher-dimensional Penrose transform between conformally invariant massless fields on space-time and cohomology classes on twistor space, where twistor space is defined to be the space of projective pure…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-10-24 L. J. Mason , R. A. Reid-Edwards , A. Taghavi-Chabert

We establish several relationships between the non-relativistic conformal symmetries of Newton-Cartan geometry and the Schr\"odinger equation. In particular we discuss the algebra $\mathfrak{sch}(d)$ of vector fields conformally-preserving…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-07-26 James Gundry

We prove a complete classification of degree-$2$ foliations on $\mathbb{P}^n$ in any dimension, assuming they are not algebraically integrable. If $\mathcal{F}$ is such a foliation, then either $\mathcal{F}$ is the linear pull-back of a…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Maurício Corrêa , Alan Muniz

Here we discuss the construction of Sp$(4;\mathbb{R})$ invariant objects in the twistor space for three dimensional conformal field theories. The Sp$(4;\mathbb{R})$ invariant projective delta function, alongside the Twistor symplectic dot…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-21 Aswini Bala , Dhruva K. S

We describe complex twistor spaces over inner 3-symmetric spaces $G/H$, such that $H$ acts transitively on the fibre. Like in the symmetric case, these are flag manifolds $G/K$ where $K$ is the centralizer of a torus in $G$. Moreover, they…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-02-26 Jean-Baptiste Butruille

Twistor forms are a natural generalization of conformal vector fields on Riemannian manifolds. They are defined as sections in the kernel of a conformally invariant first order differential operator. We study twistor forms on compact…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-01-08 Andrei Moroianu , Uwe Semmelmann

For any 4D split-signature conformal structure, there is an induced twistor distribution on the 5D space of all self-dual totally null 2-planes, which is $(2,3,5)$ when the conformal structure is not anti-self-dual. Several examples where…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-11-05 Pawel Nurowski , Katja Sagerschnig , Dennis The

It is very well known that Hopf real hypersurfaces in the complex projective space can be locally characterized as tubes over complex submanifolds. This also holds true for some, but not all, Hopf real hypersurfaces in the complex…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-06-27 Jong Taek Cho , Makoto Kimura , Miguel Ortega

In this work a proposal for definition of twistors on generic curved spaces is exposed and investigated. We consider superpositions of nearly autoparallel and nearly geodesic maps (nearly conformal maps, nc-maps) of (pseudo-)Riemannian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Sergiu I. Vacaru , Sergiu V. Ostaf

We discuss the twistor correspondence between path geometries in three dimensions with vanishing Wilczynski invariants and anti-self-dual conformal structures of signature $(2, 2)$. We show how to reconstruct a system of ODEs with vanishing…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-04 Stephen Casey , Maciej Dunajski , Paul Tod

This thesis is concerned with equidistant foliations of Euclidean space, i.e. partitions into complete, connected, properly embedded smooth submanifolds. The space of leaves is an Alexandrov space of nonnegative curvature and the canonical…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-12-04 Christian Boltner

In this paper we give a complete local parametric classification of the hypersurfaces with dimension at least three of a space form that carry a totally geodesic foliation of codimension one. A classification under the assumption that the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-03-22 Marcos Dajczer , Ruy Tojeiro

In this document we present a twistor correspondence for half-flat almost-Grassmannian structures on real and complex manifolds. We provide foundational results regarding local theory in the complex setting and a global correspondence when…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-04-18 Matthew Lam

We provide a classification of compact Euclidean submanifolds $M^n\subset{\mathbb{R}}^{n+2}$ with nonnegative sectional curvature, for $n\ge 3$. The classification is in terms of the induced metric (including the diffeomorphism…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-06-24 Luis A. Florit , Wolfgang Ziller