Spinor calculus on five-dimensional spacetimes

DOI10.1063/1.3256124zbMath1372.53052arXiv0905.2846MaRDI QIDQ3583735

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Publication date: 17 August 2010

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0905.2846

zbMATH Keywords

Einstein field equations; curvature spinors; space-time configurations; five-dimensional Lorentzian geometry; Penrose's spinor calculus

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

53C80: Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences

83E15: Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories

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

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

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