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Clifford algebras and spinors / Pertti Lounesto.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: London Mathematical Society lecture note series ; 286.Publication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.Edition: 2nd edDescription: 1 online resource (ix, 338 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781107360730
  • 1107360730
  • 9780511526022
  • 0511526024
  • 9781107365643
  • 1107365643
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Clifford algebras and spinors.DDC classification:
  • 512/.57 22
LOC classification:
  • QA199 .L68 2001eb
Other classification:
  • 31.25
Online resources:
Contents:
Vectors and linear spaces -- Complex numbers -- Bivectors and the exterior algebras -- Pauli spin matrices and spinors -- Quaternions -- Fourth dimension -- Cross product -- Elecromagnetism -- Lorentz transformations -- Dirac equation -- Fierz identities and boomerangs -- Flags, poles and dipoles -- Tilt to the opposite metric -- Definitions of the clifford algebra -- Witt rings and brauer groups -- Matrix representations and periodicity of 8 -- Spin groups and spinor spaces -- Scalar products of spinors and the chessboard -- Möbius transformations and vahlen matrices -- Hypercomplex analysis -- Binary index sets and walsh functions -- Chevalley's construction and characteristic 2 -- Octonions and triality.
Summary: This is the second edition of Professor Lounesto's unique introduction to Clifford algebras and spinors.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-334) and index.

Vectors and linear spaces -- Complex numbers -- Bivectors and the exterior algebras -- Pauli spin matrices and spinors -- Quaternions -- Fourth dimension -- Cross product -- Elecromagnetism -- Lorentz transformations -- Dirac equation -- Fierz identities and boomerangs -- Flags, poles and dipoles -- Tilt to the opposite metric -- Definitions of the clifford algebra -- Witt rings and brauer groups -- Matrix representations and periodicity of 8 -- Spin groups and spinor spaces -- Scalar products of spinors and the chessboard -- Möbius transformations and vahlen matrices -- Hypercomplex analysis -- Binary index sets and walsh functions -- Chevalley's construction and characteristic 2 -- Octonions and triality.

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This is the second edition of Professor Lounesto's unique introduction to Clifford algebras and spinors.

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