ELKO, flagpole and flag-dipole spinor fields, and the instanton Hopf fibration

Advances in Applied Clifford Algebras

Volumn 20, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 847-870

  da Rocha, R ^a   Hoff da Silva, J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO ABC   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Bilinear covariants; Clifford algebras; ELKO spinor fields; Flagdipoles; Instantons

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953311168     PISSN: 01887009     EISSN: 16614909     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00006-010-0225-9     Document Type: Review

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