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Complex general relativity

  • Giampiero Esposito

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This volume introduces the application of two-component spinor calculus and fibre-bundle theory to complex general relativity. A review of basic and important topics is presented, such as two-component spinor calculus, conformal gravity, twistor spaces for Minkowski space-time and for curved space-time, Penrose transform for gravitation, the global theory of the Dirac operator in Riemannian four-manifolds, various definitions of twistors in curved space-time and the recent attempt by Penrose to define twistors as spin-3/2 charges in Ricci-flat space-time. Original results include some geometrical properties of complex space-times with nonvanishing torsion, the Dirac operator with locally supersymmetric boundary conditions, the application of spin-lowering and spin-raising operators to elliptic boundary value problems, and the Dirac and Rarita--Schwinger forms of spin-3/2 potentials applied in real Riemannian four-manifolds with boundary. This book is written for students and research workers interested in classical gravity, quantum gravity and geometrical methods in field theory. It can also be recommended as a supplementary graduate textbook.

Genres

  • Quantum gravity
  • General relativity (Physics)
  • Supersymmetry
  • Partial Differential equations
  • Mathematical physics
  • Global differential geometry
  • Mathematics
  • Algebraic Geometry
  • Physics
  • Differential Geometry
  • Geometry, algebraic
  • Differential equations, partial
  • Mathematical and Computational Physics
  • Applications of Mathematics
  • Relativité générale (Physique)
  • Gravité quantique
  • Supersymétrie
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  • Giampiero Esposito

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Editions

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    Kluwer Academic Publishers

    1995

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    Springer London, Limited

    2006

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    Springer Netherlands

    2010