Spinors and Space-Time
by Roger Penrose , Wolfgang RindlerEdition: Reprint
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1987-05-29
Publisher(s): Cambridge University Press
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Summary
This volume introduces and systematically develops the calculus of 2-spinors. This is the first detailed exposition of this technique which leads not only to a deeper understanding of the structure of space-time, but also provides shortcuts to some very tedious calculations. Many results are given here for the first time.
Table of Contents
| Preface | |
| 1. The geometry of world-vectors and spin-vectors | |
| 2. Abstract indices and spinor algebra | |
| 3. Spinors and world-tensors | |
| 4. Differentiation and curvature | |
| 5. Fields in space-time | |
| Appendix | |
| References | |
| Subject and author index | |
| Index of symbols. |
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