Complex General Relativity

• Main Author: Esposito, Giampiero. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2002.
• Series: Fundamental Theories of Physics ; 69
• Subjects: Physics.; Algebraic geometry.; Partial differential equations.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Differential geometry.; Gravitation.; Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory.; Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics.; Differential Geometry.; Partial Differential Equations.; Algebraic Geometry.; Applications of Mathematics.
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This book is written for theoretical and mathematical physicists and mat- maticians interested in recent developments in complex general relativity and their application to classical and quantum gravity. Calculations are presented by paying attention to those details normally omitted in research pap...

Table of Contents:

• Spinor form of General Relativity
• to Complex Space-Time
• Two-Component Spinor Calculus
• Conformal Gravity
• Holomorphic Ideas in General Relativity
• Twistor spaces
• Penrose Transform for Gravitation
• Torsion and Supersymmetry
• Complex Space-Times with Torsion
• Spin-1/2 Fields in Riemannian Geometries
• Spin-3/2 Potentials
• Mathematical Foundations
• Underlying Mathematical Structures.