Clifford Algebras and Spinors
2nd Edition
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- Author: Pertti Lounesto, Helsinki Polytechnic
- Date Published: May 2001
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- isbn: 9780521005517
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This second edition of a popular and unique introduction to Clifford algebras and spinors has three new chapters. The beginning chapters cover the basics: vectors, complex numbers and quaternions are introduced with an eye on Clifford algebras. The next chapters, which will also interest physicists, include treatments of the quantum mechanics of the electron, electromagnetism and special relativity. A new classification of spinors is introduced, based on bilinear covariants of physical observables. This reveals a new class of spinors, residing among the Weyl, Majorana and Dirac spinors. Scalar products of spinors are categorized by involutory anti-automorphisms of Clifford algebras. This leads to the chessboard of automorphism groups of scalar products of spinors. On the algebraic side, Brauer/Wall groups and Witt rings are discussed, and on the analytic, Cauchy's integral formula is generalized to higher dimensions.
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- Edition: 2nd Edition
- Date Published: May 2001
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521005517
- length: 352 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 154 x 21 mm
- weight: 0.478kg
- contains: 35 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface
Mathematical notation
1. Vectors and linear spaces
2. Complex numbers
3. Bivectors and the exterior algebra
4. Pauli spin matrices and spinors
5. Quaternions
6. The fourth dimension
7. The cross product
8. Electromagnetism
9. Lorentz transformations
10. The Dirac equation
11. Fierz identities and boomerangs
12. Flags, poles and dipoles
13. Tilt to the opposite metric
14. Definitions of the Clifford algebra
15. Witt rings and Brauer groups
16. Matrix representations and periodicity of 8
17. Spin groups and spinor spaces
18. Scalar products of spinors and the chessboard
19. Möbius transformations and Vahlen matrices
20. Hypercomplex analysis
21. Binary index sets and Walsh functions
22. Chevalley's construction and characteristic 2
23. Octonions and triality
A history of Clifford algebras
Selected reading
Index.
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