In Minkowski space, a twistor may be defined as a pair consisting of a spinor field and a complex conjugate spinor field satisfying the twistor equation.
Twistor
See also
Minkowski Space, Spinor, Spinor Field, Twistor Correspondence, Twistor Equation, Twistor SpaceExplore with Wolfram|Alpha
References
Huggett, S. A. and Tod, K. P. An Introduction to Twistor Theory, rev. ed. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1993.Penrose, R. and Rindler, W. Spinors and Space-Time, Vol. 2: Spinor and Twistor Methods in Space-Time Geometry Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1987.Referenced on Wolfram|Alpha
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Weisstein, Eric W. "Twistor." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Twistor.html