Spinors and Space-Time - Volume 2 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521347860)

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.

Author: Wolfgang Rindler, Roger Penrose
ISBN-10: 0521347866
ISBN-13: 9780521347860
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/07/1988
Pages: 512
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.68lbs
Size: 8.88h x 6.17w x 1.25d