The twisted photon associated to hyper-Hermitian four-manifolds

Journal of Geometry and Physics

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 266-281

  Dunajski, Maciej ^a  

^a MERTON COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hyper Hermitian manifolds; Integrable systems; Twistor theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033147649     PISSN: 03930440     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0393-0440(98)00060-6     Document Type: Article

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