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Penrose transform

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

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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.

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Topics: natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics

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