ABSTRACT
It has been proposed that the appropriate global definition of a twistor, applicable to general curved vacuum space-times, would be as a charge for a massless field of helicity 3 I 2• In flat space-time, using the Dirac form of these potentials, these twistor charges arise as the “gauge freedom of the second kind” in a long exact sequence involving the first and second potentials for the field.
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