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==Further reading== * {{cite journal | doi = 10.1098/rspa.2017.0530 | volume=473 | title=Twistor theory at fifty: from contour integrals to twistor strings | year=2017 | journal=Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences | page=20170530 | last1 = Atiyah | first1 = Michael | last2 = Dunajski | first2 = Maciej | last3 = Mason | first3 = Lionel J.| issue=2206 | pmid=29118667 | pmc=5666237 | arxiv=1704.07464 | bibcode=2017RSPSA.47370530A | s2cid=5735524 | doi-access=free }} * Baird, P., "[http://people.math.jussieu.fr/~helein/encyclopaedia/baird-twistors.pdf An Introduction to Twistors]." * Huggett, S. and Tod, K. P. (1994). [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/831625586 ''An Introduction to Twistor Theory''], second edition. Cambridge University Press. {{ISBN|9780521456890}}. [[OCLC]] [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/831625586 831625586]. * Hughston, L. P. (1979) ''Twistors and Particles''. Springer Lecture Notes in Physics 97, Springer-Verlag. {{ISBN|978-3-540-09244-5}}. * Hughston, L. P. and Ward, R. S., eds (1979) ''Advances in Twistor Theory''. Pitman. {{ISBN|0-273-08448-8}}. * Mason, L. J. and Hughston, L. P., eds (1990) ''Further Advances in Twistor Theory, Volume I: The Penrose Transform and its Applications''. Pitman Research Notes in Mathematics Series 231, Longman Scientific and Technical. {{ISBN|0-582-00466-7}}. * Mason, L. J., Hughston, L. P., and Kobak, P. K., eds (1995) ''Further Advances in Twistor Theory, Volume II: Integrable Systems, Conformal Geometry, and Gravitation''. Pitman Research Notes in Mathematics Series 232, Longman Scientific and Technical. {{ISBN|0-582-00465-9}}. * Mason, L. J., Hughston, L. P., Kobak, P. K., and Pulverer, K., eds (2001) ''Further Advances in Twistor Theory, Volume III: Curved Twistor Spaces''. Research Notes in Mathematics 424, Chapman and Hall/CRC. {{ISBN|1-58488-047-3}}. * {{Citation | last1=Penrose | first1=Roger | author1-link=Roger Penrose | title=Twistor Algebra | url=http://link.aip.org/link/JMAPAQ/v8/i2/p345/s1 | doi=10.1063/1.1705200 | mr=0216828 | year=1967 | journal=[[Journal of Mathematical Physics]] | volume=8 | pages=345β366 | bibcode=1967JMP.....8..345P | issue=2 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://archive.today/20130112095407/http://link.aip.org/link/JMAPAQ/v8/i2/p345/s1 | archive-date=2013-01-12 }} * {{Citation | last1=Penrose | first1=Roger | title=Twistor Quantisation and Curved Space-time | doi=10.1007/BF00668831 | year=1968 | journal=International Journal of Theoretical Physics | volume=1 | issue=1 | pages=61β99|bibcode = 1968IJTP....1...61P | s2cid=123628735 }} * {{Citation | last1=Penrose | first1=Roger | title=Solutions of the Zero-Rest-Mass Equations | url=http://link.aip.org/link/JMAPAQ/v10/i1/p38/s1 | doi=10.1063/1.1664756 | year=1969 | journal=[[Journal of Mathematical Physics]] | volume=10 | issue=1 | pages=38β39 | bibcode=1969JMP....10...38P | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://archive.today/20130112125501/http://link.aip.org/link/JMAPAQ/v10/i1/p38/s1 | archive-date=2013-01-12 }} * {{Citation | last1=Penrose | first1=Roger | title=The Twistor Programme | doi=10.1016/0034-4877(77)90047-7 | mr=0465032 | year=1977 | journal=Reports on Mathematical Physics | volume=12 | issue=1 | pages=65β76|bibcode = 1977RpMP...12...65P }} * {{cite journal | last1 = Penrose | first1 = Roger | year = 1999 | title = The Central Programme of Twistor Theory | url = http://users.ox.ac.uk/~tweb/00002/index.shtml | journal = Chaos, Solitons and Fractals | volume = 10 | issue = 2β3| pages = 581β611 | doi = 10.1016/S0960-0779(98)00333-6 | bibcode = 1999CSF....10..581P }} * {{Citation | last1=Witten | first1=Edward | author1-link=Edward Witten | title=Perturbative Gauge Theory as a String Theory in Twistor Space | arxiv=hep-th/0312171 | doi=10.1007/s00220-004-1187-3 | year=2004 |bibcode = 2004CMaPh.252..189W | journal=Communications in Mathematical Physics | volume=252 | issue=1β3 | pages=189β258 | s2cid=14300396 }}
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