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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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MR2888989 Pending Mason, Lionel J.; Nicolas, Jean-Philippe Peeling of Dirac and Maxwell fields on a Schwarzschild background.
J. Geom. Phys. 62 (2012), no. 4, 867–889. 58Jxx
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MR2876055 Reviewed Adamo, Tim; Bullimore, Mathew; Mason, Lionel; Skinner, David A proof of the correlation function/supersymmetric Wilson loop
correspondence.
J. High Energy Phys. 2011, no. 8, 076, 18 pp. (Reviewer: Yasuhiro Abe) 81T18 (81R25 81T60)
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MR2847079 Pending 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 Reviewed 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. (Reviewer: Sergio L. Cacciatori) 81T18 (81R25 81T60)
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MR2818481 Reviewed 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. (Reviewer: Yasuhiro Abe) 81R25 (81T18 81T60 81U20)
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MR2818474 Reviewed Bullimore, Mathew; Mason, Lionel; Skinner, David MHV diagrams in momentum twistor space.
J. High Energy Phys. 2010, no. 12, 032, 33 pp. (Reviewer: Sergio L. Cacciatori) 81T18 (81R25 81T60)
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MR2747436 Reviewed 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 Reviewed 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 Reviewed 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 Reviewed 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 Reviewed 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 Reviewed 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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