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Title

Spinors: A Mathematica package for doing spinor calculus in General Relativity
Authors

Alfonso García-Parrado Gómez-Loboa
Jose Martin-Garcia
Organization: Wolfram Research
Journal / Anthology

Computer Physics Communications
Year: 2012
Volume: 183
Page range: 2214-2225
Description

The Spinors software is a Mathematica package which implements 2-component spinor calculus as devised by Penrose for General Relativity in dimension 3+1. The Spinors software is part of the xAct system, which is a collection of Mathematica packages to do tensor analysis by computer. In this paper we give a thorough description of Spinors and present practical examples of use.
Subject

*Mathematics > Calculus and Analysis > Calculus
Keywords

General Relativity, Spinor calculus, Tensor analysis, Tensor computer algebra