The Dirac Equation in Curved Spacetime A Guide for Calculations /

• Main Authors: Collas, Peter (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Klein, David (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Physics,
• Subjects: Quantum physics.; Gravitation.; Physics.; Quantum Physics.; Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory.; Mathematical Methods in Physics.

This book explains and develops the Dirac equation in the context of general relativistic quantum mechanics in a range of spacetime dimensions. It clarifies the subject by carefully pointing out the various conventions used and explaining how they are related to each other. The prerequisites are fam...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• The Dirac equation in special relativity
• The spinorial covariant derivative
• Examples in (3+1) GR
• The Dirac equation in (1+1) GR
• The Dirac equation in (2+1) GR
• Scalar product
• Appendices.