A Note on Kosmann-lie Derivatives of Weyl Spinors
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چکیده
Lie derivatives arise in studying continuous symmetries of various geometric structures on manifolds. They are also used in symmetry analysis of ordinary and partial differential equations (see [1]). In general relativity the bundle of Weyl spinors SM is a special geometric structure built over the space-time manifold M . The main goal of this paper is to clarify the procedure of applying Lie derivatives to the basic attributes of this geometric structure, i. e. to the basic spin-tensorial fields associated with the bundle of Weyl spinors.
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