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Spinors and Space-Time
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This volume introduces and systematically develops the calculus of 2-spinors. This is the first detailed exposition of this technique which leads not only to a deeper understanding of the structure of space-time, but also provides shortcuts to some very tedious calculations. Many results are given here for the first time.
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“For those who are accustomed to using the spinorial description of relativistic particles, the photon wave function is a familiar object. It is the self-dual (or anti self-dual) part of the electromagnetic field tensor (cf. Ref. [29]).”
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“In. the spinorial formalism, our observation that in curved space both helicities propagate without mixing is a simple consequence of the fact that both spinors φAB and φA'B' satisfy separate equations of the form [29]”
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