A formalism for the calculus of variations with spinors

DOI10.1063/1.4939562zbMath1336.83032arXiv1505.03770OpenAlexW2119591017MaRDI QIDQ2795559

Juan Antonio Valiente Kroon, Thomas Bäckdahl

Publication date: 21 March 2016

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.03770

zbMATH Keywords

spinorscalculus of variationsframeconnectiondyad2-spinorscurvature spinorsgauge-independent formalismstandard spacetime

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational problems in a geometric measure-theoretic setting (49Q20) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Special relativity (83A05) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60) Variational principles of physics (49S05)

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