TWISTERS AND MULTIPOLE MOMENTS

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.