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In this book, Professor Lounesto offers a unique introduction to Clifford algebras and spinors. The initial chapters could be read by undergraduates; vectors, complex numbers and quaternions are introduced with an eye on Clifford algebras. The next chapters will also interest physicists, and include treatments of the quantum mechanics of the electron, electromagnetism and special relativity with a flavour of Clifford algebras. This book also gives the first comprehensive survey of recent research on Clifford algebras. A new classification of spinors is introduced, based on bilinear covariants of physical observables. This reveals a new class of spinors, residing between the Weyl, Majorana and Dirac spinors. Scalar products of spinors are classified by involutory anti-automorphisms of Clifford algebras. This leads to the chessboard of automorphism groups of scalar products of spinors. On the analytic side, Brauer-Wall groups and Witt rings are discussed, and Caucy's integral formula is generalized to higher dimensions.

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Book category Books in English Mathematics & science Mathematics Algebra

• Full title: Clifford Algebras and Spinors
• Author: Pertti Lounesto
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352
• EAN: 9780521005517
• ISBN: 0521005515
• ID: 04089275
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 478 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 21 mm
• Date of publishing: 03. May 2001

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