TWISTERS AND MULTIPOLE MOMENTS

被引:4
作者
CURTIS, GE
机构
来源
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON SERIES A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES | 1978年 / 359卷 / 1697期
关键词
GEOPHYSICS; -; Gravitational;
D O I
10.1098/rspa.1978.0036
中图分类号
O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
学科分类号
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
The article presents results of attempts to produce analogous twistor definitions for the higher multiple moments of elastomagnetic and linearized gravitational fields in terms of contour integrals. The possibility that the twistor approach might have application in elementary particle theory was also examined. The formalism suggests ways in which it might be possible to extend the multipole definitions to nonstationary fields and curved asymptotically flat backgrounds.
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页码:133 / 149
页数:17
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