Authors: Paul Baird Mohammad Wehbe
Publish Date: 2011/04/22
Volume: 304, Issue: 2, Pages: 499-
Abstract
We show how the description of a shearfree ray congruence in Minkowski space as an evolving family of semiconformal mappings can naturally be formulated on a finite graph For this we introduce the notion of holomorphic function on a graph On a regular coloured graph of degree three we recover the spacetime picture In the spirit of twistor theory where a light ray is the more fundamental object from which spacetime points should be derived the line graph whose points are the edges of the original graph should be considered as the basic object The Penrose twistor correspondence is discussed in this context
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