Wave equations and the LeBrun-Mason correspondence

Fuminori Nakata

Published 2009-07-06, updated 2009-09-03Version 2

The LeBrun-Mason twistor correspondences for $S^1$-invariant self-dual Zollfrei metrics are explicitly established. We give explicit formulas for the general solutions of the wave equation and the monopole equation on the de Sitter three-space under the assumption for the tameness at infinity by using Radon-type integral transforms, and the above twistor correspondence is described by using these formulas. We also obtain a critical condition for the LeBrun-Mason twistor spaces, and show that the twistor theory does not work well for twistor spaces which do not satisfy this condition.