Integrability and Einstein's equations

Woodhouse, N.

Banach Center Publications, Tome 38 (1997), p. 221-232 / Harvested from The Polish Digital Mathematics Library

Résumé

1. Introduction. In recent years, there has been considerable interest in Oxford and elsewhere in the connections between Einstein's equations, the (anti-) self-dual Yang-Mills (SDYM) equations, and the theory of integrable systems. The common theme running through this work is that, to a greater or lesser extent, all three areas involve questions that can be addressed by twistor methods. In this paper, I shall review progress, with particular emphasis on the known and potential applications in relativity. Some of the results are well-established, others are more recent, and a few appear here for the first time.

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Publié le : 1997-01-01

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EUDML-ID : urn:eudml:doc:252252

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