Self-dual Einstein spaces, heavenly metrics, and twistors

Journal of Mathematical Physics

Volumn 51, Issue 7, 2010, Pages

  Alexandrov, Sergei ^a   Pioline, Boris ^b   Vandoren, Stefan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ MONTPELLIER II   (France)

^b LPTHE   (France)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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EID: 77955637616     PISSN: 00222488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3430574     Document Type: Article

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