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Eastwood, M.G. (1982). The twistor description of linear fields. In: Martini, R., de Jager, E.M. (eds) Geometric Techniques in Gauge Theories. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 926. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0092663
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