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Professor Lionel J Mason
BA, DPhil
- Professor of Mathematics
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Tutorial Fellow St Peter's College.
Personal Web Page
eMail:
Lionel [dot] Mason [-at-] maths [dot] ox [dot] ac [dot] uk
Contact Form
Phone Number(s):
Reception/Secretary: +44 1865 273525
Direct: +44 1865 615328
Office:
RI.1.47
Departmental Address:
Mathematical Institute
24-29 St Giles'
Oxford
OX1 3LB
England
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Research Interests:
My research interests lies in mathematical physics, focussing mostly on general relativity and quantum theory.
Much of my research is centred around twistor theory, a programme originally introduced by Roger Penrose as an approach to the unification of quantum theory and general relativity. Twistor theory now has strong links to string theory and finds wide application to problems in mathematical physics, geometry, nonlinear differential equations, particularly integrable systems. Much of my current work is on ideas arising from Witten's twistor-string theory and applications of twistor theory to scattering amplitudes. Further details of my research interests can be obtained from my publication list (see below for recent articles).
Prizes, Awards and Scholarships:
Leverhulme Senior Research Fellow 2005-6, Leverhulme Research Fellow 2011-13
Recent Publications (from MathSciNet):
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MR2847079 Adamo, Tim; Bullimore, Mathew; Mason, Lionel; Skinner, David Scattering amplitudes and Wilson loops in twistor space.
J. Phys. A 44 (2011), no. 45, 454008, 48 pp, 81Txx (81Rxx)
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MR2776218 Mason, Lionel; Skinner, David Amplitudes at weak coupling as polytopes in $\rm AdS_5$\rm AdS_5.
J. Phys. A 44 (2011), no. 13, 135401, 13 pp, 81Txx (81Uxx)
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MR2818481 Mason, Lionel; Skinner, David The complete planar $S$S-matrix of $\scr N=4$\scr N=4 SYM as a Wilson loop in
twistor space.
J. High Energy Phys. 2010, no. 12, 018, 32 pp, 81Txx (81Rxx)
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MR2818474 Bullimore, Mathew; Mason, Lionel; Skinner, David MHV diagrams in momentum twistor space.
J. High Energy Phys. 2010, no. 12, 032, 33 pp, 81T18 (81R25)
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MR2747436 (2012c:53057) LeBrun, Claude; Mason, L. J. Zoll metrics, branched covers, and holomorphic disks.
Comm. Anal. Geom. 18 (2010), no. 3, 475–502. (Reviewer: Massimiliano Pontecorvo), 53C22 (32Q15)
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MR2660809 (2012c:81140) Mason, Lionel; Skinner, David Scattering amplitudes and BCFW recursion in twistor space.
J. High Energy Phys. 2010, no. 1, 064, 65 pp. (Reviewer: Sergio L. Cacciatori), 81T18 (81R25 81T60)
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MR2653460 (2011k:81149) Bullimore, Mathew; Mason, Lionel; Skinner, David Twistor-strings, Grassmannians and leading singularities.
J. High Energy Phys. 2010, no. 3, 070, 54 pp, 81R25 (81T13)
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MR2647292 (2011i:53055) Mason, Lionel; Taghavi-Chabert, Arman Killing-Yano tensors and multi-Hermitian structures.
J. Geom. Phys. 60 (2010), no. 6-8, 907–923. (Reviewer: Frederik Witt), 53C25 (53C28 53C50 53C55 53C80)
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MR2585988 (2011f:81148) Mason, Lionel; Skinner, David Gravity, twistors and the MHV formalism.
Comm. Math. Phys. 294 (2010), no. 3, 827–862. (Reviewer: Sergio L. Cacciatori), 81T18 (53C28 81R25 83C45 83C60)
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MR2628887 (2011h:81120) Mason, Lionel; Skinner, David Dual superconformal invariance, momentum twistors and
Grassmannians.
J. High Energy Phys. 2009, no. 11, 045, 39 pp. (Reviewer: Sergio L. Cacciatori), 81R25 (81T18 81T60)
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MR2496745 (2011d:53099) LeBrun, Claude; Mason, L. J. The Einstein-Weyl equations, scattering maps, and holomorphic
disks.
Math. Res. Lett. 16 (2009), no. 2, 291–301. (Reviewer: Massimiliano Pontecorvo), 53C28 (53C25 53C50)
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MR2491619 (2009m:83159) Mason, Lionel J.; Wolf, Martin Twistor actions for self-dual supergravities.
Comm. Math. Phys. 288 (2009), no. 1, 97–123. (Reviewer: Yasuhiro Abe), 83E50 (53C80 81R25 83C60)
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