Tensors, spinors and multivectors in the Petrov classification

DOI10.1007/S00006-007-0049-4MaRDI QIDQ2460935zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors José María Pozo, Josep M. Parra Serra

Publication date 19 November 2007

Published in Advances in Applied Clifford Algebras (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00006-007-0049-4

zbMATH Keywords

2-spinorsbivector spaceClifford algebraJordan matrix classificationmultivectorsRiemann tensorWeyl tensor

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Clifford algebras, spinors (15A66) Vector and tensor algebra, theory of invariants (15A72) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80)

Review text

The authors show that two main approaches to the algebraic classification of the Weyl tensor can be related by the use of the language of geometric Clifford algebras. The first approach is based on the Jordan matrix classification of the Riemann tensor as an endomorphism in the bivector space. The second one is based on obtaining and counting the multiplicities of the principal null directions of the Weyl tensor. Using a multivectorial representation of 2-spinors the authors obtain a new canonical tensorial expression for the Weyl tensor.

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