Twistor space, Minkowski space and the conformal group

P.M. van den Broek

doi:10.1016/0378-4371(83)90050-X

Twistor space, Minkowski space and the conformal group

P.M. van den Broek

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Abstract

It is shown that the conformal group of compactified Minkowski space is isomorphic to a group of rays of semilinear transformations of twistor space. The action of the conformal group on twistor space is given by an explicit realisation of this isomorphism. In this way we determine the transformation of twistor space under space inversion and time inversion.

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Article number	10.1016/0378-4371(83)90050-X
Pages (from-to)	587-592
Number of pages	6
Journal	Physica A
Volume	122
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0378-4371(83)90050-X
Publication status	Published - Dec 1983

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