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1 Spinor Algebra.-1.1 Orthogonal Groups.-1.2 Null Tetrads and the Spinor Equivalent of a Tensor.-1.3 Spinorial Representation of the Orthogonal Transformations.-1.3.1 Euclidean Signature.-1.3.2 Lorentzian Signature.-1.3.3 Ultrahyperbolic Signature.-1.4 Reflections.-1.5 Clifford Algebra. Dirac Spinors.-1.6 Inner Products. Mate of a Spinor.-1.7 Principal Spinors. Algebraic Classification.-Exercises.-2 Connection and Curvature.-2.1 Covariant Differentiation .- 2.2 Curvature.-2.2.1 Curvature Spinors.-2.2.2 Algebraic Classification of the Conformal Curvature.-2.3 Conformal Rescalings.-2.4 Killing Vectors. Lie Derivative of Spinors.-Exercises.- 3 Applications to General Relativity.-3.1 Maxwell’s Equations.-3.2 Dirac’s Equation .-3.3 Einstein’s Equations.-3.3.1 The Goldberg–Sachs Theorem.-3.3.2 Space-Times with Symmetries. Ernst Potentials.-3.4 Killing Spinors.-Exercises.-4 Further Applications.-4.1 Self-Dual Yang–Mills Fields.-4.2 H and H H Spaces.-4.3 Killing Bispinors. The Dirac Operator.-Exercises.-A Bases Induced by Coordinate Systems.-References.
Lingua Inglese ● Formato PDF ● Pagine 177 ● ISBN 9780817649845 ● Dimensione 1.9 MB ● Casa editrice Birkhäuser Boston ● Città MA ● Paese US ● Pubblicato 2010 ● Scaricabile 24 mesi ● Moneta EUR ● ID 2146835 ● Protezione dalla copia DRM sociale
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