Spinors and Space-Time (Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics) - Spinor and Twistor Methods in Space-Time Geometry, Vol. 2 - Roger Penrose, Wolfgang Rindler (1986)
ISBN 0521252679
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 3/31/1986
Format Hardcover (235 x 159 mm)
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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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LoC Classification QC20.7.S65.P46 vol.2
Cover Price $150.00
No. of Pages 512