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The first formal neighbourhood of ambitwistor space for curved space-time

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An analogue of the first neighbourhood of ambitwistor space is constructed for curved space-time, and certain analytic cohomology groups of this neighbourhood are shown to correspond to the solution spaces of the wave and Klein-Gordon equations.

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    Claude Lebrun

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Lebrun, C. The first formal neighbourhood of ambitwistor space for curved space-time. Letters in Mathematical Physics 6, 345–354 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00419314

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