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Clifford algebras and spinors /

This is the second edition of Professor Lounesto's unique introduction to Clifford algebras and spinors.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lounesto, Pertti
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Edición:2nd ed.
Colección:London Mathematical Society lecture note series ; 286.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Vectors and linear spaces
  • Complex numbers
  • Bivectors and the exterior algebras
  • Pauli spin matrices and spinors
  • Quaternions
  • Fourth dimension
  • Cross product
  • Elecromagnetism
  • Lorentz transformations
  • Dirac equation
  • Fierz identities and boomerangs
  • Flags, poles and dipoles
  • Tilt to the opposite metric
  • Definitions of the clifford algebra
  • Witt rings and brauer groups
  • Matrix representations and periodicity of 8
  • Spin groups and spinor spaces
  • Scalar products of spinors and the chessboard
  • Möbius transformations and vahlen matrices
  • Hypercomplex analysis
  • Binary index sets and walsh functions
  • Chevalley's construction and characteristic 2
  • Octonions and triality.