Summary: *Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY 11201,
U.S.A. (e-mail: jbain@duke.poly.edu).
Stud. Hist. Phil. Mod. Phys., Vol. 31, No. 2, pp. 201}226, 2000
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The Coordinate-Independent 2-Component
Spinor Formalism and the Conventionality of
Simultaneity
Jonathan Bain*
In recent articles, Zangari (1994) and Karakostas (1997) observe that while
an -extended version of the proper orthochronous Lorentz group Ot
>
(1,3)
exists for values of not equal to zero, no similar -extended version of its
double covering group SL(2, C) exists (where "1!2
0
, with
0
the

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