Dirac-Hestenes spinor fields on Riemann-Cartan manifolds

International Journal of Theoretical Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 1849-1900

  Rodrigues Jr , W A ^a   De Souza, Q A G ^a   Vaz Jr , J ^a   Lounesto, P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

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EID: 0030495497     PISSN: 00207748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02302420     Document Type: Article

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