Clifford Algebras and Spinors Export

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TY - BOOK ID - citeulike:4525526 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4525526 N2 - This second edition of a popular and unique introduction to Clifford algebrasand spinors has three new chapters. The beginning chapters cover the basics:vectors, complex numbers and quaternions are introduced with an eye onClifford algebras. The next chapters, which will also interest physicists,include treatments of the quantum mechanics of the electron, electromagnetismand special relativity. A new classification of spinors is introduced, basedon bilinear covariants of physical observables. This reveals a new class ofspinors, residing among the Weyl, Majorana and Dirac spinors. Scalar productsof spinors are categorized by involutory anti-automorphisms of Cliffordalgebras. This leads to the chessboard of automorphism groups of scalarproducts of spinors. On the algebraic side, Brauer/Wall groups and Witt ringsare discussed, and on the analytic, Cauchy's integral formula is generalizedto higher dimensions. SN - 0521005515 TI - Clifford Algebras and Spinors PB - Cambridge University Press KW - clifford_algebras KW - spinors AU - Lounesto, Pertti PY - 2001/05/07/ UR - http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike09-20&path=ASIN/0521005515 ER -