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Tomorrow Friday, at 9.10 in Paris, Ed Witten will deliver his reading on twistors.
At a high probability, this date will mark the sad end of this mathematical structure. It will become embedded in a hundred of papers unfocusing any previously known detail of Penrose' objects, which will adquire past tomorrow a completely new meaning.
Of course it is happening since December, and Witten's article has already got over 40 citations.
Anticipating Marcus, I will review Spires:
FIND T TWISTOR OR T TWISTORS AND DATE
1999 -> 6
2000 -> 10
2001 -> 10
2002 -> 0
2003 -> 6 (Incl. 0312171)
... BEFORE 2004: 258 papers
2004 -> 16
The top-cited papers on twistors
180) Edward Witten, TWISTOR - LIKE TRANSFORM IN TEN-
DIMENSIONS.
Nucl.Phys.B266:245,1986.
169) R. Penrose, M.A.H. MacCallum, TWISTOR THEORY: AN
APPROACH TO THE QUANTIZATION OF FIELDS AND SPACE-TIME.
Phys.Rept.6:241-316,1972.
163) Dmitri P. Sorokin, V.I. Tkach, D.V. Volkov,
SUPERPARTICLES, TWISTORS AND SIEGEL SYMMETRY.
Mod.Phys.Lett.A4:901-908,1989.
159) R. Penrose, NONLINEAR GRAVITONS AND CURVED TWISTOR
THEORY.
Gen.Rel.Grav.7:31-52,1976.
113) R. Penrose, TWISTOR ALGEBRA.
J.Math.Phys.8:345,1967.
61) Ingemar Bengtsson, Martin Cederwall, PARTICLES, TWISTORS
AND THE DIVISION ALGEBRAS.
Nucl.Phys.B302:81,1988.
60) A. Galperin, E. Sokatchev, A TWISTOR LIKE D = 10
SUPERPARTICLE ACTION WITH MANIFEST N=8 WORLDLINE
SUPERSYMMETRY.
Phys.Rev.D46:714-725,1992.
57) Y. Eisenberg, S. Solomon, THE TWISTOR GEOMETRY OF THE
COVARIANTLY QUANTIZED BRINK-SCHWARZ SUPERPARTICLE.
Nucl.Phys.B309:709,1988.
Witten's hep-th/0312171 has already got 41 citations.
At a high probability, this date will mark the sad end of this mathematical structure. It will become embedded in a hundred of papers unfocusing any previously known detail of Penrose' objects, which will adquire past tomorrow a completely new meaning.
Of course it is happening since December, and Witten's article has already got over 40 citations.
Anticipating Marcus, I will review Spires:
FIND T TWISTOR OR T TWISTORS AND DATE
1999 -> 6
2000 -> 10
2001 -> 10
2002 -> 0
2003 -> 6 (Incl. 0312171)
... BEFORE 2004: 258 papers
2004 -> 16
The top-cited papers on twistors
180) Edward Witten, TWISTOR - LIKE TRANSFORM IN TEN-
DIMENSIONS.
Nucl.Phys.B266:245,1986.
169) R. Penrose, M.A.H. MacCallum, TWISTOR THEORY: AN
APPROACH TO THE QUANTIZATION OF FIELDS AND SPACE-TIME.
Phys.Rept.6:241-316,1972.
163) Dmitri P. Sorokin, V.I. Tkach, D.V. Volkov,
SUPERPARTICLES, TWISTORS AND SIEGEL SYMMETRY.
Mod.Phys.Lett.A4:901-908,1989.
159) R. Penrose, NONLINEAR GRAVITONS AND CURVED TWISTOR
THEORY.
Gen.Rel.Grav.7:31-52,1976.
113) R. Penrose, TWISTOR ALGEBRA.
J.Math.Phys.8:345,1967.
61) Ingemar Bengtsson, Martin Cederwall, PARTICLES, TWISTORS
AND THE DIVISION ALGEBRAS.
Nucl.Phys.B302:81,1988.
60) A. Galperin, E. Sokatchev, A TWISTOR LIKE D = 10
SUPERPARTICLE ACTION WITH MANIFEST N=8 WORLDLINE
SUPERSYMMETRY.
Phys.Rev.D46:714-725,1992.
57) Y. Eisenberg, S. Solomon, THE TWISTOR GEOMETRY OF THE
COVARIANTLY QUANTIZED BRINK-SCHWARZ SUPERPARTICLE.
Nucl.Phys.B309:709,1988.
Witten's hep-th/0312171 has already got 41 citations.