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Complex Geometry of Nature and General Relativity

Complex Geometry of Nature and General Relativity
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Publisher: arXiv
Number of pages: 229

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An attempt is made of giving a self-contained introduction to holomorphic ideas in general relativity, following work over the last thirty years by several authors. The main topics are complex manifolds, spinor and twistor methods, heaven spaces.

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