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Spinors and space-time. Spinor and twistor methods in space-time geometry vol 2

✍ Scribed by Roger Penrose, Wolfgang Rindler

Book ID
127460963
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1986
Tongue
English
Weight
6 MB
Series
Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics
Edition
Repr
Category
Library
City
Cambridge u.a. Cambridge Univ. Press
ISBN-13
9780521347860

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✦ Synopsis

Spinor and Twistor Methods in Space-Time Geometry introduces the theory of twistors, and studies in detail how the theory of twistors and 2-spinors can be applied to the study of space-time. Twistors have, in recent years, attracted increasing attention as a mathematical tool and as a means of gaining new insights into the structure of physical laws. This volume also includes a comprehensive treatment of the conformal approach to space-time infinity with results on general-relativistic mass and angular momentum, a detailed spinorial classification of the full space-time curvature tensor, and an account of the geometry of null geodesics.

✦ Subjects

Теория относительности и альтернативные теории гравитации

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