A judgement on sinors

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/12/9/012zbMATH Open0837.53020arXivgr-qc/9504048OpenAlexW3106422777MaRDI QIDQ4854677FDOQ4854677

Andrew Chamblin, Gary W. Gibbons

Publication date: 13 May 1996

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This note contains some comments on a recent paper by Friedman on two-component spinors in spacetimes which do not admit a time-orientation, and is intended to clarify the relation of the work reported in that paper to previous literature.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9504048

zbMATH Keywords

Clifford groupstwo-component spinorsMajorana sinorssinorsWeyl sinors

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spin and Spin({}^c) geometry (53C27) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60)

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