Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. — 394 p.
This 1990 collection of review articles covers the considerable progress made in a wide range of applications of twistor theory.
Preface
Twistor Theory After 25 Years — its Physical Status and Prospects
Between Integral Geometry and Twistors
Generalized Conformal Structures
Riemannian Twistor Spaces and Holonomy Groups
Twistors, Ambitwistors, and Conformal Gravity
The Penrose Transform
Notation for the Penrose Thansform
The Twistor Transform
Invariant Operators
Penrose's Quasi-local Mass
The Sparling 3-form, Ashtekar Variables and Quasi-local Mass
Twistors and Strings
Integrable Systems in Twistor Theory
Twistor Characterization of Stationary Axisymmetric Solutions of Einstein's Equations
A Two-surface Encoding of Radiative Space-times
Twistors, Massless Fields and the Penrose Transform
Twistor Diagrams and Feynman Diagrams
Cohomology and Twistor Diagrams
Authors' Addresses