Title Complex General Relativity Author(s) Esposito, Giampiero Publication Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 2002. Description XII, 206 p : online resource Abstract Note 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 papers, for pedagogical r- sons. Familiarity with fibre-bundle theory is certainly helpful, but in many cases I only rely on two-spinor calculus and conformally invariant concepts in gravitational physics. The key concepts the book is devoted to are complex manifolds, spinor techniques, conformal gravity, ?-planes, ?-surfaces, Penrose transform, complex 3 1 ??? ??? space-time models with non-vanishing torsion, spin- fields and spin- potentials. 2 2 Problems have been inserted at the end, to help the reader to check his und- standing of these topics. Thus, I can find at least four reasons for writing yet another book on spinor and twistor methods in general relativity: (i) to write a textbook useful to - ginning graduate students and research workers, where two-component spinor c- culus is the unifying mathematical language ISBN,Price 9780306471186 Keyword(s) 1. ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY 2. Applications of Mathematics 3. APPLIED MATHEMATICS 4. Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory 5. DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY 6. EBOOK 7. EBOOK - SPRINGER 8. ENGINEERING MATHEMATICS 9. GRAVITATION 10. MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS 11. PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS 12. Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics Item Type eBook Multi-Media Links Please Click here for eBook Circulation Data Accession#   Call# Status Issued To Return Due On Physical Location I10890     On Shelf