Null vectors, spinors, and strings
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Null vectors, spinors, and strings
zbMATH Open document ID: 0602.53010
DOI: 10.1007/BF01220999
published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics
publication date: 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z
review text: In this elegant paper the author shows how the Cartan notion of spinors may be reformulated in terms of complex two and four-component projective spinors. This is done by using the classical theorems of Enneper- Weierstrass (for ordinary 3-dimensional space-time) on minimal surfaces generated by null curves. It is suggested that this close relationship with (projective) null-geometry may be of significance in string theory.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 53C27
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 53C80
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 53B50
zbMATH DE Number: 3971643
zbMATH Keywords: Cartan spinors
zbMATH Keywords: projective spinors
zbMATH Keywords: minimal surfaces
zbMATH Keywords: null curves
zbMATH Keywords: string theory
author: P. Budinich
reviewed by: Joseph D. Zund
MaRDI profile type: Publication
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description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3971643