Killing spinors and massless spinor fields

DOI10.1098/RSPA.1985.0071zbMATH Open0569.53007OpenAlexW2147676079MaRDI QIDQ3685604FDOQ3685604

Authors: G. F. Torres del Castillo 

Publication date: 1985

Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A: Mathematical and Physical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.1985.0071

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zbMATH Keywords

Maxwell equationsKerr metricKilling spinorWeyl equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of local differential geometry to the sciences (53B50) Spin and Spin({}^c) geometry (53C27) General relativity (83C99)

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