Spinors in Four-Dimensional Spaces Volume 152 || Applications to General Relativity

✍ Scribed by Torres del Castillo, Gerardo F.

• Book ID: 111933668
• Publisher: Birkhäuser Boston
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 456 KB
• Edition: 1st
• Category: Article
• ISBN: 0817649840
• DOI: 10.1007/978-0-8176-4984-5_3

✦ Synopsis

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-dimensional spinors, such as Yang–Mills theory, are derived in detail using illustrative examples. Spinors in Four-Dimensional Spaces is aimed at graduate students and researchers in mathematical and theoretical physics interested in the applications of the two-component spinor formalism in any four-dimensional vector space or Riemannian manifold with a definite or indefinite metric tensor. This systematic and self-contained book is suitable as a seminar text, a reference book, and a self-study guide.