Geometry, spinors, and applications

the long version

"This book is concerned with covariant and Lie differentiation of spinor fields, in the general context of not necessarily metric-compatible connections and non Killing-vector directions, respectively. Some earlier investigations of special cases are presented here in a unified fashion. New results are also established, which appear in print for the first time." "This work should be helpful to graduate students and researchers. Students can benefit from the introduction to aspects of algebra, geometry and spinors and their applications, whereas researchers may concentrate on the specific problem of spinorial differentiation."--Jacket.