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Electromagnetism in spinor notation

We present here the basic results written in spinor notation. You can prove all of them as an exercise.

Every skew can be written as

where and are symmetric. If is real then . Dualisation is particularly easy:

Maxwell's equations have the form:

for some 4-potential and 4-current . The expression for the stress-energy tensor is also particularly simple:



Fedja Hadrovic
Sat Jan 3 17:20:50 GMT 1998