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Spinors and Space-Time: Volume 2, Spinor and Twistor Methods in Space-Time
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Spinors and Space-Time: Volume 2, Spinor and Twistor Methods in Space-Time Geometry Hardcover - 1986

by Roger Penrose; Wolfgang Rindler


From the publisher

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.

Details

  • Title Spinors and Space-Time: Volume 2, Spinor and Twistor Methods in Space-Time Geometry
  • Author Roger Penrose; Wolfgang Rindler
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 512
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, MA
  • Date 1986-03
  • ISBN 9780521252676 / 0521252679
  • Weight 1.85 lbs (0.84 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.98 x 5.98 x 1.26 in (22.81 x 15.19 x 3.20 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Space and time, Mathematical physics
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 82019861
  • Dewey Decimal Code 530.11