Gravity, twistors and the MHV formalism

DOI10.1007/s00220-009-0972-4zbMath1226.81146arXiv0808.3907OpenAlexW2073894620MaRDI QIDQ625472

David Skinner, Lionel J. Mason

Publication date: 17 February 2011

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0808.3907

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Supergravity (83E50) Feynman diagrams (81T18) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Gravitational interaction in quantum theory (81V17) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Spinor and twistor methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R25) Algebraic moduli problems, moduli of vector bundles (14D20) Twistor methods in differential geometry (53C28) Gravitational waves (83C35)

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