The many faces of Maxwell, Dirac and Einstein equations. A Clifford bundle approach

DOI10.1007/978-3-319-27637-3zbMath1345.83002WikidataQ56552871 ScholiaQ56552871MaRDI QIDQ5966301

Edmundo Capelas de Oliveira, Waldyr Alves jun. Rodrigues

Publication date: 9 December 2015

Published in: Lecture Notes in Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27637-3

zbMATH Keywords

spacetime; spinors; branes; Dirac; Maxwell; space-time; Clifford and spin-Clifford bundle formalism; Dirac and Einstein fields; Komar current; Majorana and ELKO spinor fields

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

53A45: Differential geometric aspects in vector and tensor analysis

01A60: History of mathematics in the 20th century

15A72: Vector and tensor algebra, theory of invariants

81Q05: Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics

81T30: String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory

53Z05: Applications of differential geometry to physics

83C05: Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems)

83-02: Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory

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

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

15A66: Clifford algebras, spinors

58A05: Differentiable manifolds, foundations

83-03: History of relativity and gravitational theory

00A79: Physics

78-02: Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to optics and electromagnetic theory

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