Spinors in Four-Dimensional Spaces

• Main Author: Torres del Castillo, Gerardo F. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Birkhäuser Boston : Imprint: Birkhäuser, 2010.
• Edition: 1.
• Series: Progress in Mathematical Physics ; 59
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Topological groups.; Lie groups.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Physics.; Gravitation.; Topological Groups, Lie Groups.; Mathematical Methods in Physics.; Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory.; Applications of Mathematics.

Without using the customary Clifford algebras frequently studied in connection with the representations of orthogonal groups, this book gives an elementary introduction to the two-component spinor formalism for four-dimensional spaces with any signature. Some of the useful applications of four-dimen...