Spinor

A two-component complex column vector. Spinors can describe both bosons and fermions, while tensors can describe only bosons.

See also

Minkowski Space, Spinor Field, Spinor Lie Derivative, Tensor, Twistor

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References

Cartan, È. The Theory of Spinors. New York: Dover, 1981.Corson, E. M. Introduction to Tensors, Spinors and Relativistic Wave-Equations. London, England: Blackie and Son, 1955.Lounesto, P. "Counterexamples to Theorems Published and Proved in Recent Literature on Clifford Algebras, Spinors, Spin Groups, and the Exterior Algebra." http://www.hit.fi/~lounesto/counterexamples.htm.Misner, C. W.; Thorne, K. S.; and Wheeler, J. A. "Spinors." Ch. 41 in Gravitation. San Francisco, CA: W. H. Freeman, pp. 1135-1165, 1973.Morse, P. M. and Feshbach, H. "The Lorentz Transformation, Four-Vectors, Spinors." §1.7 in Methods of Theoretical Physics, Part I. New York: McGraw-Hill, pp. 93-107, 1953.Penrose, R. and Rindler, W. Spinors and Space-Time, Vol. 1: Two-Spinor Calculus and Relativistic Fields. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1987.Penrose, R. and Rindler, W. Spinors and Space-Time, Vol. 2: Spinor and Twistor Methods in Space-Time Geometry Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

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