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Comments on the Spinor Structure of Space-Time*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

K. K. Lee
K. K. Lee*
Affiliation:
Department of MathematicsUniversity of Ottawa, OttawaOntario, Kin 6N5
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Abstract

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A simpler proof of the theorem on the spinor structure of space-time is given. Some geometrical insights are provided.

Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Mathematical Bulletin , Volume 18 , Issue 3 , August 1975 , pp. 437 - 438
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1975

Footnotes

*

Partly supported by the National Science Foundation while the author was at Physics Department, Syracuse University, Syracuse, N.Y. 13210.

*

A space-time M is an orientable 4-dim differentiate manifold with a metric of Lorentz signature (—, +, +, +).

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