| Spinors and Space-Time - Volume 2 Revised Edition Contributor(s): Rindler, Wolfgang (Author), Penrose, Roger (Author), Landshoff, Peter (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521347866 ISBN-13: 9780521347860 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $99.75 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1988 Annotation: 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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| BISAC Categories: - Science | Physics - Relativity - Mathematics | Applied - Science | Physics - Mathematical & Computational |
| Dewey: 530.1 |
| Series: Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics |
| Physical Information: 1.25" H x 6.17" W x 8.88" (1.68 lbs) 512 pages |
