The coordinate-independent 2-component spinor formalism and the conventionality of simultaneity

DOI10.1016/S1355-2198(99)00033-7zbMath1222.83124MaRDI QIDQ720379

Jonathan Bain

Publication date: 14 October 2011

Published in: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

spacetimespinorsformalismsimultaneityconventionalism

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophy of mathematics (00A30) Spinor and twistor methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R25) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60)

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Cites Work

• The conventionality of simultaneity in the light of the spinor representation of the Lorentz group
• Spinor Structure of Space-Times in General Relativity. I
• General Relativity
• The geometry of Minkowski spacetime. An introduction to the mathematics of the special theory of relativity
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