Penrose transform

noun

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.

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Meanings

nounPenrose transform (plural Penrose transforms)

plural Penrose transforms

  1. natural sciencesA 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.

Origin

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

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