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Penrose transform

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.

Noun

Penrose transform (plural Penrose transforms)

  1. 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.

Forms of Penrose transform

pluralPenrose transforms

Origin of Penrose transform

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

Questions about Penrose transform

What does Penrose transform mean?
Penrose transform means 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.
What part of speech is Penrose transform?
Penrose transform is a noun.
What is the plural of Penrose transform?
The plural of Penrose transform is Penrose transforms.

Words near Penrose transform in the dictionary

  1. Penrose process
  2. Penrose staircase
  3. Penrose staircases
  4. Penrose stairs
  5. Penrose steps
  6. Penrose transform
  7. Penrose transforms
  8. Penrose triangle
  9. Penrose triangles
  10. Penrose-Lucas argument
  11. penroseite

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