Weyl spinor and solution of massless free field equations
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Weyl spinor and solution of massless free field equations
zbMATH Open document ID: 0957.83028
DOI: 10.1023/A:1003644511476
author: Antonio Zecca
published in: International Journal of Theoretical Physics
publication date: 2001-04-01T00:00:00Z
review text: The author studies massless field equations for arbitrary spin on a curved spacetime by considering in detail the cosmological models of Robertson-Walker (RW), and the Lemaitre-Tolman-Bondi (LTB). The Newman-Penrose method of spin-coefficients is employed to formulate these equations, and the equations are explicitly solved for \(\operatorname {spin} 3/2\) and 2. It is argued that these results may be extended for the case of arbitrary spin. Contents includes: an introduction; the RW spacetime; the LTB spacetime and the Weyl spinor; the LTB spacetime and the \(s= 3/2\) equation; the LTB spacetime and the \(s=2\) equation; the LTB spacetime and generalizations.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 83C60
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 83F05
zbMATH DE Number: 1507645
zbMATH Keywords: Weyl spinor
zbMATH Keywords: massless field equations
zbMATH Keywords: Newman-Penrose spin-coefficients
zbMATH Keywords: cosmological models
reviewed by: Joseph D. Zund
MaRDI profile type: Publication
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1507645