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

spacetime; spinors; space-time

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

53A45: Differential geometric aspects in vector and tensor analysis

01A60: History of mathematics in the 20th century

15A72: Vector and tensor algebra, theory of invariants

83C05: Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems)

83-02: Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory

53C27: Spin and Spin({}^c) geometry

83C60: Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism

15A66: Clifford algebras, spinors

58A05: Differentiable manifolds, foundations

83-03: History of relativity and gravitational theory

78-02: Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to optics and electromagnetic theory

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