Selfdual spaces with complex structures, einstein-weyl geometry and geodesics

Annales de l'Institut Fourier

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 921-963

  Calderbank, D M J ^a   Pedersen, H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Abelian monopoles; Conformal symmetry; Einstein; Geodesic congruences; Hermitian surfaces; Sefdual manifolds; Twistor theory; Weyl 3 manifolds

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034376483     PISSN: 03730956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5802/aif.1779     Document Type: Article

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