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Conditions for Penrose-Ward transformation on specific manifolds.

Various complexes of differential operators are constructed on complex projective space via the Penrose transform, which also computes their cohomology.

We study the Penrose transform for the `quaternionic objects' whose twistor spaces are complex manifolds endowed with locally complete families of embedded Riemann spheres with positive normal bundles.

We present a version of the Penrose transform which relates compactly supported cohomology on a complex or CR manifold Z to kernels and cokernels of differential operators on a parameter space X of compact complex submanifolds of Z.

We show that, in quaternionic geometry, the Ward transform is a manifestation of the functoriality of the basic correspondence between the $ρ$-quaternionic manifolds and their twistor spaces. We apply this fact, together with the Penrose transform, to obtain existence results for hypercomplex manifolds and for harmonic…

We give a generalization of the Penrose transform on Hermitian manifolds with metrics locally conformally equivalent to Bochner-Kähler metrics. We also give an explicit formula for the inverse transform. This paper is a generalization of "The Twistor correspondence of the Dolbeault complex over $\C^n$" (dg-ga/9501004) …

With respect to the Dirac operator and the conformally invariant Laplacian, an explicit description of the inverse Penrose transform on Riemannian twistor spaces is given. A Dolbeault representative of cohomology on the twistor space is constructed from a solution of the field equation on the base manifold.

The paper explores unique properties of Darboux transformations of spacelike curves in the Lorentz-Minkowski plane.

Penrose transform tells us that there is an isomorphism of the kernel of an invariant differential operator studied in the paper [TS] and sheaf cohomology of some vector bundle on twistor space. The point of this paper is to write down this isomorphism explicitly. Explicit form of the isomorphism will be crucial for fu…

The paper constructs a complex for the Dirac operator in 4 dimensions.

As early as 1972, Penrose - in a purely formal way - introduced a "discontinuous coordinate transformation", which relates a continuous representation of the metric of impulsive pp-waves to a discontinuous one. On the basis of the invertibility concept for generalized functions developed recently by the first author, w…

Extends Penrose's method to null shells with pressure and energy flux.

Study shows formation of Kerr black holes with complete apparent horizons and proves Penrose inequalities.

We study some aspects of conformal transformations in the context of twistor theory, leading to the definition of a frustrated conformal transformation. This equation relies on two instantons for the left and right copies of $Sp(1)$, one being self-dual and the other anti-self-dual. Solutions to this equation naturally…

Using the Penrose transform, we construct analogues of the BGG (Bernstein-Gelfand-Gelfand) resolutions in certain singular infinitesimal characters, in the holomorphic geometric setting, over the Lagrangian Grassmannian. We prove the exactness of the constructed complex over the big affine cell.

Counterexample disproves recent Penrose conjecture variant.

Constructs homologies for ribbon graphs to recover Penrose polynomials.

New relations for Penrose polynomial at n=4 and n=3.

Study how past eon's matter affects present eon in Penrose's cyclic cosmology.

This article gives a study of the higher-dimensional Penrose transform between conformally invariant massless fields on space-time and cohomology classes on twistor space, where twistor space is defined to be the space of projective pure spinors of the conformal group. We focus on the 6-dimensional case in which twisto…

Schwarzschild 3-manifold stability proven for 3D Penrose inequality.

Smooth metrics satisfying Penrose inequality are necessarily smooth.

Study of Lorentzian manifolds with specific transformations.

We investigate the Penrose limits of classical string and M-theory backgrounds. We prove that the number of (super)symmetries of a supergravity background never decreases in the limit. We classify all the possible Penrose limits of AdS x S spacetimes and of supergravity brane solutions. We also present the Penrose limi…

Extends Penrose limit to Finsler spacetimes.

Penrose limit results for specific 3-surfaces in space-time.

We construct manifestly superconformal field theories in six dimensions which contain a non-Abelian tensor multiplet. In particular, we show how principal 3-bundles over a suitable twistor space encode solutions to these self-dual tensor field theories via a Penrose-Ward transform. The resulting higher or categorified …

Throughout the literature on the charged Riemannian Penrose inequality, it is generally assumed that there is no charged matter present; that is, the electric field is divergence-free. The aim of this article is to clarify when the charged Riemannian Penrose inequality holds in the presence of charged matter, and when …

Paper applies Newman-Penrose formalism to ACM manifolds.

New proof of Penrose inequality using potential theory.

These are notes of lectures given at the Third School of Theoretical Physics in Jijel (Algeria, September 2009). The subject of these notes is differential geometry, complex and quaternionic structures with applications to theoretical physics. Concerning the physical applications, they contain several aspects of Penros…

We propose a geometric inequality for two-dimensional spacelike surfaces in the Schwarzschild spacetime. This inequality implies the Penrose inequality for collapsing dust shells in general relativity, as proposed by Penrose and Gibbons. We prove that the inequality holds in several important cases.

The null Penrose inequality, i.e. the Penrose inequality in terms of the Bondi energy, is studied by introducing a funtional on surfaces and studying its properties along a null hypersurface $Ω$ extending to past null infinity. We prove a general Penrose-type inequality which involves the limit at infinity of the Hawki…

The article proves charged quasi-local Penrose inequalities for compact manifolds with boundary.

The purpose of this article is to view the Penrose kite from the perspective of symplectic geometry.

We establish a Penrose-Ward transform yielding a bijection between holomorphic principal 2-bundles over a twistor space and non-Abelian self-dual tensor fields on six-dimensional flat space-time. Extending the twistor space to supertwistor space, we derive sets of manifestly N=(1,0) and N=(2,0) supersymmetric non-Abeli…

Proves existence of solutions to Einstein constraints with specific boundary conditions and verifies Penrose inequality.

The conformal flow of metrics [2] has been used to successfully establish a special case of the Penrose inequality, which yields a lower bound for the total mass of a spacetime in terms of horizon area. Here we show how to adapt the conformal flow of metrics, so that it may be applied to the Penrose inequality for gene…

Establishes a Penrose-type inequality for static spacetimes.

The Penrose-Kauffman polynomial connects knot theory to graph coloring.

Study rigidity in Penrose's singularity theorem with weakly trapped surfaces.

We establish versions of the Positive Mass and Penrose inequalities for a class of asymptotically hyperbolic hypersurfaces. In particular, under the usual dominant energy condition, we prove in all dimensions $n\geq 3$ an optimal Penrose inequality for certain graphs in hyperbolic space $\mathbb H^{n+1}$ whose boundary…

Proves Penrose inequality in all dimensions for specific manifolds.

Proves Riemannian Penrose Inequality for specific manifolds.

We prove that the Penrose limit of a spacetime along a homogeneous geodesic is a homogeneous plane wave spacetime and that the Penrose limit of a reductive homogeneous spacetime along a homogeneous geodesic is a Cahen--Wallach space. We then consider several homogenous examples to show that these results are indeed sha…

In arXiv:0905.2622v1 and arXiv:0910.4785v1, Bray and Khuri outlined an approach to prove the Penrose inequality for general initial data sets of the Einstein equations. In this paper we extend this approach so that it may be applied to a charged version of the Penrose inequality. Moreover, assuming that the initial dat…

Study Penrose inequality for metrics with singular sets.

Combines non-Euclidean and de Sitter geometries on the plane.