Clifford algebra : a computational tool for physicists / John Snygg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Snygg, John, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Clifford algebras.

Mathematical physics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (352 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Clifford 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.

Contents:

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 Metric

11.* Matrix Representations and Classifications of Clifford AlgebrasAppendix:; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Bibliography: p325-329. _ Includes index.

Previously issued in print: 1997.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-773215-1

1-280-52812-5

9786610528127

0-19-802586-6

1-4294-1555-X

OCLC:

476006590