The many faces of Maxwell, Dirac and Einstein equations. A Clifford bundle approach

zbMath1124.83002MaRDI QIDQ2373613

Waldyr Alves jun. Rodrigues, Edmundo Capelas de Oliveira

Publication date: 13 July 2007

Published in: Lecture Notes in Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

spacetimespinorsspace-time

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometric aspects in vector and tensor analysis (53A45) History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) Vector and tensor algebra, theory of invariants (15A72) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-02) Spin and Spin({}^c) geometry (53C27) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60) Clifford algebras, spinors (15A66) Differentiable manifolds, foundations (58A05) History of relativity and gravitational theory (83-03) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to optics and electromagnetic theory (78-02)

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