260183 VO Tensors, Spinors, Twistors and all that (2018W)
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Language: German
Examination dates
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Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N
Monday
08.10.
17:00 - 18:30
Seminarraum A, Währinger Straße 17, 2. Stk., 1090 Wien
(Kickoff Class)
Monday
15.10.
17:00 - 18:30
Seminarraum A, Währinger Straße 17, 2. Stk., 1090 Wien
Monday
22.10.
17:00 - 18:30
Seminarraum A, Währinger Straße 17, 2. Stk., 1090 Wien
Monday
29.10.
17:00 - 18:30
Seminarraum A, Währinger Straße 17, 2. Stk., 1090 Wien
Monday
05.11.
17:00 - 18:30
Seminarraum A, Währinger Straße 17, 2. Stk., 1090 Wien
Monday
12.11.
17:00 - 18:30
Seminarraum A, Währinger Straße 17, 2. Stk., 1090 Wien
Monday
19.11.
17:00 - 18:30
Seminarraum A, Währinger Straße 17, 2. Stk., 1090 Wien
Monday
26.11.
17:00 - 18:30
Seminarraum A, Währinger Straße 17, 2. Stk., 1090 Wien
Monday
03.12.
17:00 - 18:30
Seminarraum A, Währinger Straße 17, 2. Stk., 1090 Wien
Monday
10.12.
17:00 - 18:30
Seminarraum A, Währinger Straße 17, 2. Stk., 1090 Wien
Monday
07.01.
17:00 - 18:30
Seminarraum A, Währinger Straße 17, 2. Stk., 1090 Wien
Monday
14.01.
17:00 - 18:30
Seminarraum A, Währinger Straße 17, 2. Stk., 1090 Wien
Monday
21.01.
17:00 - 18:30
Seminarraum A, Währinger Straße 17, 2. Stk., 1090 Wien
Monday
28.01.
17:00 - 18:30
Seminarraum A, Währinger Straße 17, 2. Stk., 1090 Wien
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Aims, contents and method of the course
Assessment and permitted materials
Oral exam
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
deepened and broadened knowledge about tensors and spinors (higher dimensions).
Examination topics
Basic definitions and theorems and examples from physics
Reading list
Cartan 1966; Penrose&Rindler 1985/86
Association in the course directory
MaV 4, M-VAF A 2, M-VAF B
Last modified: Mo 07.09.2020 15:41
Tensors and invariants for the (pseudo)orthogonal groups
2-component spinors for the Lorentz group
Clifford-Dirac algebra and spinors in n dimensions
Chiral (=Weyl=semi-=half-)spinors, Dirac-, Pauli-, bi- (=Cartan) spinors
Invariant bi- and sesquilinear forms, invariant conjugations, Majorana spinors
Relation between spinors and tensors; pure spinors
Twistors and the conformal group of Minkowski space
SO(8), parallelisms of the 7-sphere, trialitystandard lecture course