Two-spinors, field theories and geometric optics in curved spacetime

DOI10.1023/A:1006455216170zbMath1075.81525OpenAlexW127401720MaRDI QIDQ1841186

Daniel Canarutto

Publication date: 2000

Published in: Acta Applicandae Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1006455216170

zbMATH Keywords

connectionsgeometric opticsoptical geometrytetrad gravitytwo-spinorselectroweak fieldsMaxwell-Dirac fields

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spinor and twistor methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R25) Special connections and metrics on vector bundles (Hermite-Einstein, Yang-Mills) (53C07) Covariant wave equations in quantum theory, relativistic quantum mechanics (81R20) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60) Weak interaction in quantum theory (81V15) Einstein-Maxwell equations (83C22) Geometric optics (78A05)

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