The Home Page of Andrzej Trautman



Contact:

e-mail address: Andrzej.Trautman at fuw.edu.pl
phone (office): (+48)(22) 5532 295
snail-mail: IFT UW, Hoza 69, PL-00-681 Warszawa, Poland
office room: # 212

A short autobiography in English and an old photo
Życiorys po polsku

Spis publikacji w formacie LaTeX / List of publications

Grupy oraz ich reprezentacje (plik w formacie Postscript) / Notes on Groups and Their Representations (in Polish)
O tym, jak nietoperze obaliły teorię względności (How bats have proved the theory of relativity to be wrong; an article in Polish; pdf format)

Laudatio for Roger Penrose on the occasion of  conferring on him the title of Doctor Honoris Causa of Warsaw University (29  August 2005); pdf file

Ostatnie publikacje w formacie ps lub pdf / Recent publications in ps or pdf format (see also the papers available from Acta Physica Polonica B):

Geometric aspects of spinors
Generalized pure spinors (co-author: K. Trautman)
Pin structures and the modified Dirac operator (co-authors: M. Cahen and S. Gutt)
Clifford and the `square root' ideas
Pythagorean spinors and Penrose twistors
Reflections and spinors on manifolds
Relativistic gravitational fields with close Newtonian analogs (co-authors: P. Nurowski and E. Schucking)
On complex structures in physics
Gauge and optical aspects of gravitation
Spin spaces, Lipschitz groups and spinor bundles (co-author: Th. Friedrich)
A conjectured form of the Goldberg-Sachs theorem
Double covers of pseudo-orthogonal groups
Robinson manifolds as the Lorentzian analogs of Hermite manifolds (co-author: P. Nurowski)
Robinson manifolds and Cauchy-Riemann spaces
Robinson manifolds and the shear-free condition
16 double covers of the full Lorentz group (transparencies for talk at Anniversary Conference of the Centre for Theoretical Physics, Warsaw, 11 June 2005)
Two approaches to spinor fields (transparencies for talk at Peter G. Bergmann Memorial Symposium)
Clifford algebras and their representations
The Einstein-Cartan theory
Connections and the Dirac operator on spinor bundles
Remarks on the history of Lie differentiation