Published 1987 | Version v1
Book

Clifford Algebras and magnetic monopoles

Creators

  • 1. Universita di Catania, Catania

Description

It is known that the introduction of magnetic monopolies in electromagnetism does still present formal problems from the point of view of classical field theory. The author attempts to overcome at least some of them by making recourse to the Clifford Algebra formalism. In fact, while the events of a two-dimensional Minkowski space-time M(1,1) are sufficiently well represented by ordinary Complex Numbers, when dealing with the events of the four-dimensional Minkowski space M(1,3)identical to M/sub 4/ one has of course to look for hypercomplex numbers or, more generally, for the elements of a Clifford Algebra. The author uses the Clifford Algebras in terms of ''multivectors'', and in particular by Hestenes' language, which suits space-time quite well. He recalls that the Clifford product chiγ is the sum of the internal product chi . γ and of the wedge product chiΛγ

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Publishing Information

Publisher
World Scientific Pub. Co.
Imprint Place
Teaneck, NJ (USA)
ISBN
9971-50-257-7
Imprint Title
Proceedings of the 7th Italian conference on general relativity and gravitational physics
Journal Page Range
p. 315-321.

Conference

Title
7. Italian conference on general relativity and gravitational physics.
Dates
3-6 Sep 1986.
Place
Rapallo (Italy).