Spinors and space-time. Volume 2: Spinor and twistor methods in space-time geometry.

This is a companion volume to the introductory work Spinors and space-time, Volume 1: two-spinor calculus and relativistic fields. (See Abstr. 39.003.151). Themain topics introduced and discussed in the present volume are twistor theory and related matters such as massless fields and the geometry of light rays, energy-momentum and angular momentum, and the conformalstructure of infinity. In addition, a detailed classification of space-time curvature by 2-spinor means is provided. The main concern is the classification of the Weyl (or empty-space Riemann) tensor, but a comprehensive treatment of the Ricci tensor is also given, showing how this arises as a particular case of the classification of symmetric spinors generally.