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  title info:
    title: Complex General Relativity
  name:
    name part: Esposito, Giampiero.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2002
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XII, 206 p. online resource.
  abstract: This book is written for theoretical and mathematical physicists and mat- maticians interested in recent developments in complex general relativity and their application to classical and quantum gravity. Calculations are presented by paying attention to those details normally omitted in research papers, for pedagogical r- sons. Familiarity with fibre-bundle theory is certainly helpful, but in many cases I only rely on two-spinor calculus and conformally invariant concepts in gravitational physics. The key concepts the book is devoted to are complex manifolds, spinor techniques, conformal gravity, ?-planes, ?-surfaces, Penrose transform, complex 3 1 – – space-time models with non-vanishing torsion, spin- fields and spin- potentials. 2 2 Problems have been inserted at the end, to help the reader to check his und- standing of these topics. Thus, I can find at least four reasons for writing yet another book on spinor and twistor methods in general relativity: (i) to write a textbook useful to - ginning graduate students and research workers, where two-component spinor c- culus is the unifying mathematical language.
  table of contents: Spinor form of General Relativity -- to Complex Space-Time -- Two-Component Spinor Calculus -- Conformal Gravity -- Holomorphic Ideas in General Relativity -- Twistor spaces -- Penrose Transform for Gravitation -- Torsion and Supersymmetry -- Complex Space-Times with Torsion -- Spin-1/2 Fields in Riemannian Geometries -- Spin-3/2 Potentials -- Mathematical Foundations -- Underlying Mathematical Structures.
  note: by Giampiero Esposito.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Algebraic geometry
  subject:
    topic: Partial differential equations
  subject:
    topic: Applied mathematics
  subject:
    topic: Engineering mathematics
  subject:
    topic: Differential geometry
  subject:
    topic: Gravitation
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory
  subject:
    topic: Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics
  subject:
    topic: Differential Geometry
  subject:
    topic: Partial Differential Equations
  subject:
    topic: Algebraic Geometry
  subject:
    topic: Applications of Mathematics
  classification: QC178
  classification: QC173.5-173.65
  classification: 530.1
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Fundamental Theories of Physics ; 69
  identifier: 9780306471186
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/0-306-47118-3
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    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151204170034.0
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