Theory of spinors : an introduction

著者

• Carmeli, Moshe
• Malin, Shimon

書誌事項

Theory of spinors : an introduction

Moshe Carmeli, Shimon Malin

World Scientific, 2000

• : pbk

注記

Includes bibliographical references and index

内容説明・目次

巻冊次

ISBN 9789810242619

内容説明

Spinors are used extensively in physics. It is widely accepted that they are more fundamental than tensors, and the easy way to see this is through the results obtained in general relativity theory by using spinors - results that could not have been obtained by using tensor methods only.The foundation of the concept of spinors is groups; spinors appear as representations of groups. This textbook expounds the relationship between spinors and representations of groups. As is well known, spinors and representations are both widely used in the theory of elementary particles.The authors present the origin of spinors from representation theory, but nevertheless apply the theory of spinors to general relativity theory, and part of the book is devoted to curved space-time applications.Based on lectures given at Ben Gurion University, this textbook is intended for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in physics and mathematics, as well as being a reference for researchers.

目次

• Introduction to group theory
• representation theory
• the Lorentz and SL(2,C) groups
• two-components spinors
• Maxwell, Dirac and Pauli spinors
• the gravitational field spinors
• the gauge field spinors
• the Euclidean gauge field spinors.

巻冊次

: pbk ISBN 9789812564726

内容説明

Spinors are used extensively in physics. It is widely accepted that they are more fundamental than tensors, and the easy way to see this is through the results obtained in general relativity theory by using spinors - results that could not have been obtained by using tensor methods only.The foundation of the concept of spinors is groups; spinors appear as representations of groups. This textbook expounds the relationship between spinors and representations of groups. As is well known, spinors and representations are both widely used in the theory of elementary particles.The authors present the origin of spinors from representation theory, but nevertheless apply the theory of spinors to general relativity theory, and part of the book is devoted to curved space-time applications.Based on lectures given at Ben Gurion University, this textbook is intended for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in physics and mathematics, as well as being a reference for researchers.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA47317693
• ISBN:
  • 9810242611
  • 9812564721
• 出版国コード: si
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Singapore
• ページ数/冊数: xiii, 212 p.
• 大きさ: 23 cm