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penrose transform

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.72 in modern English

Syllables
pen-rose -trans-form
IPA
23
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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.

Etymology

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

Inflected Forms

Penrose transforms (plural)

Questions

What does penrose transform mean?
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.
Where does penrose transform come from?
Introduced by Roger Penrose (1967, 1968, 1969).

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