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The singularities of H-space†

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

K. P. Tod
K. P. Tod
Affiliation:
Mathematical Institute, Oxford
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The non-linear graviton construction of Penrose (9) and the ℋ-space construction of Newman (6) are two complementary techniques for constructing complex four dimensional space-times with quadratic metric and anti-self-dual curvature tensor.

In the former, the space-time is the space of holomorphic sections of a complex fibre space obtained by deforming part of flat twistor space. In the latter the space-time is the space of regular solutions of a differential equation, the good cut equation.

Pathologies arise in the non-linear graviton construction when the normal bundle of a holomorphic section changes. This is reflected in the ℋ-space construction by a change in the character of the solutions of the linearized good cut equation, the Newman equation.

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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 92 , Issue 2 , September 1982 , pp. 331 - 347
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1982

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