Twistors, special relativity, conformal symmetry and minimal coupling - A review

International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 265-304

  Bette, Andreas ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE SONORA   (Mexico)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Conformal symmetry; Relativistic spinning particles; Special relativity; Twistor theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746275173     PISSN: 02198878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0219887805000612     Document Type: Review

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