Clifford Algebras and Spinors
Series: London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series; 286;
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Product details:
- Edition number 2, Revised
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 3 May 2001
- ISBN 9780521005517
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages352 pages
- Size 229x154x21 mm
- Weight 478 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 35 b/w illus. 0
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This is the second edition of Professor Lounesto's unique introduction to Clifford algebras and spinors.
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In this book, Professor Lounesto offers a unique introduction to Clifford algebras and spinors. The initial chapters could be read by undergraduates; vectors, complex numbers and quaternions are introduced with an eye on Clifford algebras. The next chapters will also interest physicists, and include treatments of the quantum mechanics of the electron, electromagnetism and special relativity with a flavour of Clifford algebras. This book also gives the first comprehensive survey of recent research on Clifford algebras. A new classification of spinors is introduced, based on bilinear covariants of physical observables. This reveals a new class of spinors, residing between the Weyl, Majorana and Dirac spinors. Scalar products of spinors are classified by involutory anti-automorphisms of Clifford algebras. This leads to the chessboard of automorphism groups of scalar products of spinors. On the analytic side, Brauer-Wall groups and Witt rings are discussed, and Caucy's integral formula is generalized to higher dimensions.
'The author gives a concise but thorough introduction to spinors and Clifford algebras extending from the very beginning to present research ... A very recommendable book for everyone interested in this field.' G. Kowol, Monatschefte fur Mathematik
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. M&&&246;bius 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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