The Dirac equation in curved spacetime. A guide for calculations (Q1738343): Difference between revisions

The book represents a very useful tool for graduate students and beginning researchers in a large area of the theory and applications of the Dirac equation. It can be useful for all the stages of learning: from the initial acknowledgement to deep investigations. Except for the Kerr metrics of the General Relativity, where a further powerful development of research was due to \textit{S. Chandrasekhar} [``The solution of Dirac's equation in Kerr geometry'', Proc. R. Soc. London A 349, 571--575 (1976)], the authors of the book cover a very large area of spacetimes, where exact solutions for the Dirac equation are known, so that the book will be very useful to everybody desiring to make an economy with special articles from various journals. It is expectable, that the book would be cited in a future due to this, but also due to good systematization. At the finish of the book a number of mathematical appendices has been included, as well as a program tool Cartan for numerical computations involving Dirac equation. The book also contains a number of exercises well selected with solutions at the finish of the book. Reviewer's remark: As a prospect for future investigations, the reviewer is recommending to authors to include in the planes for future investigations such questions as: 1. Dirac equation in Schwarzschild spacetime in Eddington-Finkelstein coordinates 2. Dirac equation in Kerr and Kerr-Newman spacetimes. The interest to this questions can be due to coordinates used influence on transmissions probabilities or timelifes for bound states by black holes as well as a general interest for extension of analytical calculations to more complicated spacetimes than Schwarzschild.