260183 VO Tensors, Spinors, Twistors and all that (2010W)
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max. 15 participants
Language: German
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Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N
- Monday 11.10. 17:15 - 18:30 Kleiner Seminarraum, Zi.3510, Boltzmanngasse 5, 5. Stk., 1090 Wien
- Tuesday 12.10. 17:15 - 18:30 Kleiner Seminarraum, Zi.3510, Boltzmanngasse 5, 5. Stk., 1090 Wien
- Monday 18.10. 17:15 - 18:30 Kleiner Seminarraum, Zi.3510, Boltzmanngasse 5, 5. Stk., 1090 Wien
- Tuesday 19.10. 17:15 - 18:30 Kleiner Seminarraum, Zi.3510, Boltzmanngasse 5, 5. Stk., 1090 Wien
- Monday 25.10. 17:15 - 18:30 Kleiner Seminarraum, Zi.3510, Boltzmanngasse 5, 5. Stk., 1090 Wien
- Monday 08.11. 17:15 - 18:30 Kleiner Seminarraum, Zi.3510, Boltzmanngasse 5, 5. Stk., 1090 Wien
- Tuesday 09.11. 17:15 - 18:30 Kleiner Seminarraum, Zi.3510, Boltzmanngasse 5, 5. Stk., 1090 Wien
- Monday 15.11. 17:15 - 18:30 Kleiner Seminarraum, Zi.3510, Boltzmanngasse 5, 5. Stk., 1090 Wien
- Tuesday 16.11. 17:15 - 18:30 Kleiner Seminarraum, Zi.3510, Boltzmanngasse 5, 5. Stk., 1090 Wien
- Monday 22.11. 17:15 - 18:30 Kleiner Seminarraum, Zi.3510, Boltzmanngasse 5, 5. Stk., 1090 Wien
- Tuesday 23.11. 17:15 - 18:30 Kleiner Seminarraum, Zi.3510, Boltzmanngasse 5, 5. Stk., 1090 Wien
- Monday 29.11. 17:15 - 18:30 Kleiner Seminarraum, Zi.3510, Boltzmanngasse 5, 5. Stk., 1090 Wien
- Tuesday 30.11. 17:15 - 18:30 Kleiner Seminarraum, Zi.3510, Boltzmanngasse 5, 5. Stk., 1090 Wien
- Monday 06.12. 17:15 - 18:30 Kleiner Seminarraum, Zi.3510, Boltzmanngasse 5, 5. Stk., 1090 Wien
- Tuesday 07.12. 17:15 - 18:30 Kleiner Seminarraum, Zi.3510, Boltzmanngasse 5, 5. Stk., 1090 Wien
- Monday 13.12. 17:15 - 18:30 Kleiner Seminarraum, Zi.3510, Boltzmanngasse 5, 5. Stk., 1090 Wien
- Tuesday 14.12. 17:15 - 18:30 Kleiner Seminarraum, Zi.3510, Boltzmanngasse 5, 5. Stk., 1090 Wien
- Monday 10.01. 17:15 - 18:30 Kleiner Seminarraum, Zi.3510, Boltzmanngasse 5, 5. Stk., 1090 Wien
- Tuesday 11.01. 17:15 - 18:30 Kleiner Seminarraum, Zi.3510, Boltzmanngasse 5, 5. Stk., 1090 Wien
- Monday 17.01. 17:15 - 18:30 Kleiner Seminarraum, Zi.3510, Boltzmanngasse 5, 5. Stk., 1090 Wien
- Tuesday 18.01. 17:15 - 18:30 Kleiner Seminarraum, Zi.3510, Boltzmanngasse 5, 5. Stk., 1090 Wien
- Monday 24.01. 17:15 - 18:30 Kleiner Seminarraum, Zi.3510, Boltzmanngasse 5, 5. Stk., 1090 Wien
- Tuesday 25.01. 17:15 - 18:30 Kleiner Seminarraum, Zi.3510, Boltzmanngasse 5, 5. Stk., 1090 Wien
- Monday 31.01. 17:15 - 18:30 Kleiner Seminarraum, Zi.3510, Boltzmanngasse 5, 5. 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
To deepen and broaden the knowledge about tensors and spinors (higher dimensions).
Examination topics
Standard lecture course
Reading list
Cartan 1966; Penrose&Rindler 1985/86
Association in the course directory
PD250,320
Last modified: Mo 07.09.2020 15:41
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