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Complex General Relativity (Fundamental Theories of Physics) (1899)
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Author
G. Esposito
Giampiero Esposito
Subject General relativity (Physics)
Publication Date 12/31/1899
Format Hardcover (250 mm)
Publisher Springer
Language eng
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This volume introduces the application of two-component spinor calculus and fibre-bundle theory to complex general relativity. A review of basic and important topics is presented, such as two-component spinor calculus, conformal gravity, twistor spaces for Minkowski space-time and for curved space-time, Penrose transform for gravitation, the global theory of the Dirac operator in Riemannian four-manifolds, various definitions of twistors in curved space-time and the recent attempt by Penrose to define twistors as spin-3/2 charges in Ricci-flat space-time. Original results include some geometrical properties of complex space-times with nonvanishing torsion, the Dirac operator with locally supersymmetric boundary conditions, the application of spin-lowering and spin-raising operators to elliptic boundary value problems, and the Dirac and Rarita--Schwinger forms of spin-3/2 potentials applied in real Riemannian four-manifolds with boundary. This book is written for students and research workers interested in classical gravity, quantum gravity and geometrical methods in field theory. It can also be recommended as a supplementary graduate textbook.
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LoC Classification QC173.6.E8 1995
Dewey 530.1/1
ISBN 0792333403
Series Fundamental theories of physics ;
Cover Price $146.00
Nr of Pages 214
First Edition No
Rare No