Conformal Description of Spinning Particles.

Todorov, Ivan T.:

ISBN 10: 3540168907 / ISBN 13: 9783540168904

Published by Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, London usw.: Springer-Verlag, 1986

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VIII, 74 Seiten, Format 16,5 x 24,2 cm, originalkartonierter Einband (Trieste Notes in Physics). * Zweite ISBN: 0-387-16890-7. Literaturverzeichnis und Index (References + Index) auf den Seiten 67-74. Erhaltung: Keine Mängel und insgesamt sehr gut erhalten [Eine größere Sammlung Physik, Mathematik, Astronomie und verwandte Gebiete wird derzeit in den Bestand eingearbeitet. Sie finden diese Titel bei uns in den gleichnamigen Rubriken]. Sprache: Englisch. Seller Inventory # 28548

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Title: Conformal Description of Spinning Particles.

Publisher: Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, London usw.: Springer-Verlag

Publication Date: 1986

Edition: 1st Edition

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Synopsis:

These notes arose from a series of lectures first presented at the Scuola Interna- zionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati and the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste in July 1980 and then, in an extended form, at the Universities of Sofia (1980-81) and Bielefeld (1981). Their objective has been two-fold. First, to introduce theorists with some background in group representations to the notion of twistors with an emphasis on their conformal properties; a short guide to the literature on the subject is designed to compensate in part for the imcompleteness and the one-sidedness of our review. Secondly, we present a systematic study of po- sitive energy conformal orbits in terms of twistor flag manifolds. They are interpre- ted as cl assi ca 1 phase spaces of "conformal parti cl es"; a characteri sti c property of such particles is the dilation invariance of their mass spectrum which, there~ fore, consists either of the point zero or of the infinite interval 222 o < -p ~ PO - P < = The detailed table of contents should give a thorough idea of the material covered in the text. The present notes would have hardly been written without the encouragement and the support of Professor Paolo Budinich, whose enthusiasm concerning conformal semispinors (a synonym of twistors) -viewed in the spirit of El i Cartan -is having a stimulating influence.