Boya, Luis J. ; Sudarshan, E. C. G. (2005) Relation between rigid-body motion, isotropic cones, and spinors Foundations of Physics Letters, 18 (1). pp. 53-63. ISSN 0894-9875
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Related URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10702-005-2469-5
Abstract
Spinors play a role in classical physics, since the fact that the rotation group is not simply connected has consequences for macroscopic bodies. Here we relate the orientations of a rigid body to two-dimensional complex spinors by combining O. Rodrigues' parameterization of rotations with Cartan's 2:1 identification of spinors with complex isotropic 3-vectors.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Keywords: | Spinors; Rigid-body Rotation; Isotropic Vectors |
| ID Code: | 50962 |
| Deposited On: | 27 Jul 2011 13:03 |
| Last Modified: | 27 Jul 2011 13:03 |
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