Two-spinor calculus and relativistic fields

Author(s)

• Penrose, Roger
• Rindler, Wolfgang

Bibliographic Information

Two-spinor calculus and relativistic fields

Roger Penrose, Wolfgang Rindler

（Cambridge monographs on mathematical physics, . Spinors and space-time ; v. 1）

Cambridge University Press, 1984

• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographies (p. 435-443) and indexes

Reprinted with corrections 1986

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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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Details

• NCID: BA00605140
• ISBN:
  • 0521245273
  • 0521337070
• LCCN: 82019861
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]
• Pages/Volumes: x, 458 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : QC20.7.S65
  • DC19 : 530.1/1
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Spinor analysis
  • LCSH : Space and time
  • LCSH : Geometry, Differential
  • LCSH : Mathematical physics
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00074521