Title of the course: Twistor geometry
Instructor: Prof. Stephen Huggett
Institution: –
Dates: 14-18 September 2020
Prerequisites: Special relativity, complex analysis, projective geometry
Level: Graduate
Abstract: This will be a gentle introduction to twistor geometry. We will describe the Klein correspondence between Minkowski space and twistor space, and we will give an elementary account of the Penrose transform.
1. Compactification of Minkowski space
2. Definition of Twistor space
3. The Klein correspondence
4. Causal structure
5. Real points
6. Functions on Twistor space
7. A double fibration
Language: English