260183 VO Tensors, Spinors, Twistors and all that (2006W)

Tensors, Spinors, Twistors and all that

7.50 ECTS (3.00 SWS), SPL 26 - Physik

Vorbesprechung am Mo., 9.10.2006 um 17:15, im kl. SR Boltzmanngasse 5, 5. Stock

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Language: German

Lecturers

Helmuth Urbantke

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Aims, contents and method of the course

Focus: Quantum structure and geometry of space, time and matter

Tensors for the general linear group
Tensors 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, triality

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Association in the course directory

PD250,320

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