Clifford algebras and spinors

著者

• Lounesto, Pertti

書誌事項

Clifford algebras and spinors

Pertti Lounesto

（London Mathematical Society lecture note series, 286）

Cambridge University Press, 2001

2nd ed

• : pbk

注記

Includes bibliographies and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

In this book, Professor Lounesto offers a unique introduction to Clifford algebras and spinors. The initial chapters could be read by undergraduates; vectors, complex numbers and quaternions are introduced with an eye on Clifford algebras. The next chapters will also interest physicists, and include treatments of the quantum mechanics of the electron, electromagnetism and special relativity with a flavour of Clifford algebras. This book also gives the first comprehensive survey of recent research on Clifford algebras. A new classification of spinors is introduced, based on bilinear covariants of physical observables. This reveals a new class of spinors, residing between the Weyl, Majorana and Dirac spinors. Scalar products of spinors are classified by involutory anti-automorphisms of Clifford algebras. This leads to the chessboard of automorphism groups of scalar products of spinors. On the analytic side, Brauer-Wall groups and Witt rings are discussed, and Caucy's integral formula is generalized to higher dimensions.

目次

• Preface
• Mathematical notation
• 1. Vectors and linear spaces
• 2. Complex numbers
• 3. Bivectors and the exterior algebra
• 4. Pauli spin matrices and spinors
• 5. Quaternions
• 6. The fourth dimension
• 7. The cross product
• 8. Electromagnetism
• 9. Lorentz transformations
• 10. The Dirac equation
• 11. Fierz identities and boomerangs
• 12. Flags, poles and dipoles
• 13. Tilt to the opposite metric
• 14. Definitions of the Clifford algebra
• 15. Witt rings and Brauer groups
• 16. Matrix representations and periodicity of 8
• 17. Spin groups and spinor spaces
• 18. Scalar products of spinors and the chessboard
• 19. Moebius transformations and Vahlen matrices
• 20. Hypercomplex analysis
• 21. Binary index sets and Walsh functions
• 22. Chevalley's construction and characteristic 2
• 23. Octonions and triality
• A history of Clifford algebras
• Selected reading
• Index.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA51590415
• ISBN:
  • 0521005515
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Cambridge ; New York
• ページ数/冊数: ix, 338 p.
• 大きさ: 23 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : QA199
  • DC21 : 512/.57
  • NDC9 : 411.72
  • NDC8 : 411.72
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Clifford algebras
  • LCSH : Spinor analysis
• 親書誌ID:
  • BA0005393X