Twistor Theory of Plane Waves

Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 14:00

704 Thackeray Hall

Speaker Information
George A. J. Sparling
University of Pittsburgh

Abstract or Additional Information

The Penrose transform expresses massless fields in flat spacetime as cohomology classes in twistor space. We shall show an alternative formulation of  massless fields using convolution operators on the Heisenberg group of twistor space. We apply this idea to give a novel interpretation of the Ward solution to massless fields in a plane wave.