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

By Roger Penrose , Wolfgang Rindler

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1986
ISBN
0521347866, 9780521347860
Open Library ID
OL7737675M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
6 MB (6364220 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics
Volume
vol 2
Edition
Repr
Pages
509\509
Library
Kingdwarf
Time added
2010-01-07 06:59:20
Физика;Теория относительности и альтернативные тео

Description

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.

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