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Showing papers by "Roger Penrose published in 2015"


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TL;DR: This work incorporates the concept of a non-commutative holomorphic quantized twistor ‘Heisenberg algebra’, extending the sheaves of holomorphic functions of conventional twistor theory to include the operators of twistor differentiation.
Abstract: A key obstruction to the twistor programme has been its so-called googly problem, unresolved for nearly 40 years, which asks for a twistor description of right-handed interacting massless fields (p...

19 citations


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TL;DR: The LARES satellite was successfully launched in 2012 for tests of General Relativity and gravitational physics including the accurate measurement of frame-dragging as discussed by the authors, and it is currently very well observed all over the world by the stations of the International Laser Ranging Service.
Abstract: The LARES satellite was successfully launched in 2012 for tests of General Relativity and gravitational physics including the accurate measurement of frame-dragging. It is currently very well observed all over the world by the stations of the International Laser Ranging Service. Its preliminary orbital analyses show that LARES behaves as the best artificial massive test particle today available in the solar system, providing an optimal approximation to the time-like geodesic motion of General Relativity. Furthermore, on the basis of a test using almost three years of observations of LARES, we concluded that LARES, together with the LAGEOS and LAGEOS 2 satellites, provides excellent preliminary results for testing General Relativity.

18 citations