Etymology

Penrose transform

Today it means: A complex analog of the Radon transform that relates massless fields on spacetime, or more precisely the space of solutions to massless field equations, to sheaf cohomology groups on complex projective space. Full definition →

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Introduced by Roger Penrose (1967, 1968, 1969).

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