The automatic conversion of spinor equations to dyad form in MAPLE

DOI10.1007/BF00759122zbMath0758.53047MaRDI QIDQ1200413

John Carminati, Stephanie R. Czapor, Raymond G. Mclenaghan

Publication date: 16 January 1993

Published in: General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

normalized spinor dyad

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symbolic computation and algebraic computation (68W30) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-04)

Related Items

Unnamed Item ⋮ Geometric interpretation of the mixed invariants of the Riemann spinor ⋮ Unnamed Item ⋮ Unnamed Item ⋮ GHP: A maple package for performing calculations in the Geroch-Held-Penrose formalism ⋮ \textit{Spinors}: a Mathematica package for doing spinor calculus in general relativity ⋮ Shear-free perfect fluids in general relativity: Gravito-magnetic spacetimes ⋮ Conformal C and empty spaces of Petrov type \(N\) ⋮ The Maple package NPTOOLS; a symbolic algebra package for tetrad formalisms in general relativity

Uses Software

• Maple
• NP
• LaTeX

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