02694nam 2200613Ia 450 991045189280332120200520144314.01-280-52812-597866105281270-19-802586-61-4294-1555-X(CKB)1000000000468099(EBL)271189(OCoLC)476006590(SSID)ssj0000123257(PQKBManifestationID)11157712(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000123257(PQKBWorkID)10005375(PQKB)11447593(MiAaPQ)EBC271189(Au-PeEL)EBL271189(CaPaEBR)ebr10142241(CaONFJC)MIL52812(OCoLC)936850358(EXLCZ)99100000000046809919950302d1997 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrClifford algebra[electronic resource] a computational tool for physicists /John SnyggNew York Oxford University Press19971 online resource (352 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-509824-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Introduction; 1. A Taste of Clifford Algebra in Euclidean 3-Space; 2. A Sample of Clifford Algebra in Minkowski 4-Space; 3. Clifford Algebra for Flat n-Dimensional Spaces; 4. Curved Spaces Embedded in Higher Dimensional Flat Spaces; 5. The Use of Fock-Ivanenko 2-Vectors to obtain the Schwarzschild Metric; 6*. The Schwarzschild Metric via Fock-Ivanenko 2-Vectors; 7. Two Differential Operators; 8.* Dirac's Equation for the Electron; 9. The Kerr Metric by an Elementary Brute Force Method; 10.* Petrov's Canonical Forms for the Weyl Tensor and Another Approach to the Kerr Metric11.* Matrix Representations and Classifications of Clifford AlgebrasAppendix:; Bibliography; IndexClifford algebras have become a useful tool for physicists at the cutting edge of theoretical investigations. This book is aimed at beginning graduate physics and math students learning mathematical physics, relativity, quantum physics, or applied mathematics; and mathematical physicists.Clifford algebrasMathematical physicsElectronic books.Clifford algebras.Mathematical physics.530.1/5257Snygg John743191MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451892803321Clifford algebra1477987UNINA