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Clifford algebra : a computational tool for physicists
- Title
- Clifford algebra : a computational tool for physicists / John Snygg.
- Author
- Snygg, John.
- Publication
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | QC20.7.C55 S64 1997 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xv, 335 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-329) and index.
- Contents
- 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 Algebras -- App. A.1. The Product Decomposition of Restricted Lorentz Operators and Related Operators -- App. A.2. The Exponential Representation of Restricted Lorentz Operators -- App. A.3. The Bianchi Identity.
- ISBN
- 0195098242 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 95006890
- OCLC
- ocm32199295
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries