书目名称 | Spinors in Four-Dimensional Spaces |
编辑 | Gerardo F. Torres del Castillo |
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概述 | Systematic, coherent exposition throughout.Introductory treatment of spinors, requiring no previous knowledge of spinors or advanced knowledge of Lie groups.Includes a detailed bibliography and index. |
丛书名称 | Progress in Mathematical Physics |
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描述 | Without using the customary Clifford algebras frequently studied in connection with the representations of orthogonal groups, this book gives an elementary introduction to the two-component spinor formalism for four-dimensional spaces with any signature. Some of the useful applications of four-dimensional spinors, such as Yang–Mills theory, are derived in detail using illustrative examples...Key topics and features:.• Uniform treatment of the spinor formalism for four-dimensional spaces of any signature, not only the usual signature (+ + + −) employed in relativity.• Examples taken from Riemannian geometry and special or general relativity are.discussed in detail, emphasizing the usefulness of the two-component spinor formalism.• Exercises in each chapter.• The relationship of Clifford algebras and Dirac four-component spinors is established.• Applications of the two-component formalism, focusing mainly on general relativity, are.presented in the context of actual computations...Spinors in Four-Dimensional Spaces. is aimed at graduate students and researchers in mathematical and theoretical physics interested in the applications of the two-component spinor formalism in any four-dim |
出版日期 | Book 2010 |
关键词 | Conformal Curvature; Curvature Spinors; Dirac Spinors; Einstein’s Equations; Killing Bispinors; Potential |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-8176-4984-5 |
isbn_ebook | 978-0-8176-4984-5Series ISSN 1544-9998 Series E-ISSN 2197-1846 |
issn_series | 1544-9998 |
copyright | Birkhäuser Boston 2010 |