Wolfgang Rindler, Roger Penrose

Spinors and Space-Time - Volume 2

Herausgeber: Landshoff, Peter

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 823g
• ISBN-13: 9780521347860
• ISBN-10: 0521347866
• Artikelnr.: 22160062

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Summary of volume 1
6. Twistors
7. Null congruences
8. Classification of curvature tensors
9. Conformal infinity
Appendix
References
Subject and author index
Index of symbols.