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How to Create a Two-Component Spinor
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  • Charles G Torre, Department of Physics, Utah State University
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Publication Date
10-10-2012
Disciplines
Abstract

Let (M, g) be a spacetime, i.e., a 4-dimensional manifold M and Lorentz signature metric g. The key ingredients needed for constructing spinor fields on the spacetime are: a complex vector bundle E -> M ; an orthonormal frame on TM ; and a solder form relating sections of E to sections of TM (and tensor products thereof). We show how to create a two-component spinor field on the Schwarzschild spacetime using the DifferentialGeometry package in Maple. PDF and Maple worksheets can be downloaded from the links below.

Citation Information
Charles G Torre. "How to Create a Two-Component Spinor" (2012)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/charles_torre/70/