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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2009 iii Paper 59 2 a Solution by
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In the compact twistor correspondence, a point of complexified compactified Minkowski space is a two-dimensional subspace . The correspondence fiber consists of flags with a one-dimensional subspace of . Its image in projective twistor space is precisely , soThis is the twistor line of . In the affine chart the twistor incidence relation gives . The linear map is injective, and projectivizing it gives the same Complex projective space . The subspace argument also covers points at conformal infinity, where that graph chart fails.
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