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050 0 0 _aQC20.7.C55
_bV39 2016
082 0 4 _a512/.57
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100 1 _aVaz Jr., Jayme,
_eauthor.
245 1 3 _aAn introduction to Clifford algebras and spinors /
_cJayme Vaz, Jr., Roldão da Rocha, Jr.
246 3 0 _aClifford algebras and spinors
250 _aFirst edition.
264 1 _aOxford, United Kingdom :
_bOxford University Press,
_c2016.
264 4 _c©2016
300 _axiv, 242 pages ;
_c26 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 231-237) and index.
505 0 0 _gMachine generated contents note:
_g1.
_tPreliminaries --
_g1.1.
_tVectors and Covectors --
_g1.2.
_tThe Tensor Product --
_g1.3.
_tTensor Algebra --
_g1.4.
_tExercises --
_g2.
_tExterior Algebra and Grassmann Algebra --
_g2.1.
_tPermutations and the Alternator --
_g2.2.
_tp-Vectors and p-Covectors --
_g2.3.
_tThe Exterior Product --
_g2.4.
_tThe Exterior Algebra (V) --
_g2.5.
_tThe Exterior Algebra as the Quotient of the Tensor Algebra --
_g2.6.
_tThe Contraction, or Interior Product --
_g2.7.
_tOrientation, and Quasi-Hodge Isomorphisms --
_g2.8.
_tThe Regressive Product --
_g2.9.
_tThe Grassmann Algebra --
_g2.10.
_tThe Hodge Isomorphism --
_g2.11.
_tAdditional Readings --
_g2.12.
_tExercises --
_g3.
_tClifford, or Geometric, Algebra --
_g3.1.
_tDefinition of a Clifford Algebra --
_g3.2.
_tUniversal Clifford Algebra as a Quotient of the Tensor Algebra --
_g3.3.
_tSome General Considerations --
_g3.4.
_tProm the Grassmann Algebra to the Clifford Algebra --
_g3.5.
_tGrassmann Algebra versus Clifford Algebra --
_g3.6.
_tNotation --
_g3.7.
_tAdditional Readings --
_g3.8.
_tExercises --
_g4.
_tClassification and Representation of the Clifford Algebras --
_g4.1.
_tTheorems on the Structure of Clifford Algebras --
_g4.2.
_tThe Classification of Clifford Algebras --
_g4.3.
_tIdempotents and Representations --
_g4.4.
_tClifford Algebra Representations --
_g4.5.
_tAdditional Readings --
_g4.6.
_tExercises --
_g5.
_tClifford Algebras, and Associated Groups --
_g5.1.
_tOrthogonal Transformations and the Cartan -- Dieudonne Theorem --
_g5.2.
_tThe Clifford -- Lipschitz Group --
_g5.3.
_tThe Pin Group and the Spin Group --
_g5.4.
_tConformal Transformations in Clifford Algebras --
_g5.5.
_tAdditional Readings --
_g5.6.
_tExercises --
_g6.
_tSpinors --
_g6.1.
_tThe Babel of Spinors --
_g6.2.
_tAlgebraic Spinors --
_g6.3.
_tClassical Spinors --
_g6.4.
_tSpinor Operators --
_g6.5.
_tA Comparison of the Different Definitions of Spinors --
_g6.6.
_tThe Inner Product in the Space of Algebraic Spinors --
_g6.7.
_tThe Triality Principle in the Clifford Algebraic Context --
_g6.8.
_tPure Spinors --
_g6.9.
_tDual Rotations, and the Penrose Flagpole --
_g6.10.
_tWeyl Spinors in Cl3,0 --
_g6.11.
_tWeyl Spinors in the Clifford Algebra Cl0,3 H H --
_g6.12.
_tSpinor Transformations --
_g6.13.
_tSpacetime Vectors as Paravectors of Cl3,0 from Weyl Spinors --
_g6.14.
_tParavectors of Cl4,1 in Cl3,0 via the Periodicity Theorem --
_g6.15.
_tTwistors as Geometric Multivectors --
_g6.16.
_tSpinor Classification According to Bilinear Covariants --
_g6.17.
_tAdditional Readings --
_g6.18.
_tExercises --
_gAppendix
_tA The Standard Two-Component Spinor Formalism --
_gA.1.
_tWeyl Spinors --
_gA.2.
_tContravariant Undotted Spinors --
_gA.3.
_tCovariant Undotted Spinors --
_gA.4.
_tContravariant Dotted Spinors --
_gA.5.
_tCovariant Dotted Spinors --
_gA.6.
_tNull Flags and Flagpoles --
_gA.7.
_tThe Supersymmetry Algebra --
_gAppendix B
_tList of Symbols.
650 0 _aClifford algebras.
650 0 _aSpinor analysis.
650 7 _aSpinor analysis
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650 7 _aClifford algebras.
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650 7 _aClifford-Algebra
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650 7 _aSpinoranalysis
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