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- Systematic, coherent exposition throughout
- Introductory treatment of spinors, requiring no previous knowledge of spinors or advanced knowledge of Lie groups
- Three chapters devoted to the definition, properties and applications of spin-weighted functions, with all background given
Part of the book series: Progress in Mathematical Physics (PMP, volume 32)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Reviews
"In summary…the book gathers much of what can be done with 3-D spinors in an easy-to-read, self-contained form designed for applications that will supplement many available spinor treatments. The book…should be appealing to graduate students and researchers in relativity and mathematical physics."
—Mathematical Reviews
"The presnet book provides an easy-to-read and unconventional presentation of the spinor formalism for three-dimensional spaces with a definite or indefinite metric...Following a nice and descriptive introduction chapters 2-4 are devoted to spin-weighted functions and their applications, while chapters 5 and 6 collect all the standard material on spinor algebra and spinor analysis respectively. The final chapter contains some applications of the formalism to general relativity." ---Monatshefte für Mathematik
Authors and Affiliations
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Instituto de Ciencias, Universidad Autonoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
G. F. Torres del Castillo
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: 3-D Spinors, Spin-Weighted Functions and their Applications
Authors: G. F. Torres del Castillo
Series Title: Progress in Mathematical Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-8176-8146-3
Publisher: Birkhäuser Boston, MA
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2003
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8176-3249-6
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4612-6416-3
eBook ISBN: 978-0-8176-8146-3
Series ISSN: 1544-9998
Series E-ISSN: 2197-1846
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 249
Topics: Physics, general, Applications of Mathematics, Topological Groups, Lie Groups, Mathematical Methods in Physics, Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory