Fields on Tube Domains Connected with Twistor Space

Saturday, February 8, 2025 - 14:00

704 Thackeray Hall

Speaker Information
George A. J. Sparling
University of Pittsburgh

Abstract or Additional Information

In the Penrose correspondence for massless fields in flat spacetime, the positive frequency fields are those which extend to holomorphic functions on the future tube. We show how to construct massless fields on the natural tubes (the Siegel upper half-space) over the primordial spacetime, using convolution operators.

We discuss the special role of theta functions.