Hidden consequence of active local Lorentz invariance

International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 305-357

  Rodrigues Jr , W A ^a   Da Rocha, Roldao ^a   Vaz Jr , J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Connections; Local Lorentz invariance; Maxwell and Dirac equations

Indexed keywords

EID: 29344457669     PISSN: 02198878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0219887805000600     Document Type: Article

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