A01=Moshe Carmeli
A01=Shimon Malin
Author_Moshe Carmeli
Author_Shimon Malin
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Category=PBH
Category=PDE
Category=PHR
Cosmological Transformation
Dirac Spinor
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Gauge Field Spinor
Gravitational Field Spinor
Group Representations
Lorentz Group
Maxwell Spinor
Pauli Spinor
Rotation Group
Spinors
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- ISBN 9789810242619
- Publication Date: 12 Apr 2000
- Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
- Publication City/Country: SG
- Product Form: Hardback
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Spinors are used extensively in physics. It is widely accepted that they are more fundamental than tensors, and the easy way to see this is through the results obtained in general relativity theory by using spinors — results that could not have been obtained by using tensor methods only.The foundation of the concept of spinors is groups; spinors appear as representations of groups. This textbook expounds the relationship between spinors and representations of groups. As is well known, spinors and representations are both widely used in the theory of elementary particles.The authors present the origin of spinors from representation theory, but nevertheless apply the theory of spinors to general relativity theory, and part of the book is devoted to curved space-time applications.Based on lectures given at Ben Gurion University, this textbook is intended for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in physics and mathematics, as well as being a reference for researchers.
