3-D Spinors, Spin-Weighted Functions and their Applications (Progress in Mathematical Physics)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Birkhäuser Boston
Published: July 25, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780817632496
Subjects: Theoretical methods; Vector Analysis; Mathematics; Science/Mathematics; Applied; Group Theory; Mathematics / Applied; General; Spinor analysis
First sentence: It is a well-known fact that rotations in three-dimensional Euclidean space can be represented by means of complex 2 x 2 matrices and that this representation is related to the stereographic projection of complex numbers (see, e.g., Goldstein 1980, Penrose and Rindler 1984, Burn 1985, Sattinger and Weaver 1986, Stillwell 1992).