Twistors and fields with sources on worldlines

Abstract

It is shown that zero-rest-mass fields with sources on an analytic worldline are naturally defined on a double cover of some region of Minkowski space. Twistor spaces are constructed that correspond to such regions and these turn out to be non-Hausdorff spaces, obtained by identifying two copies of regions in ordinary twistor space, except on a ruled surface that corresponds to the worldline. It is shown that cohomology classes on the twistor space corresponds to sourced fields on Minkowski space, thus extending the twistor descrip­tion of massless fields.