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The purpose of this paper is to extend to spinor electromagnetism the differential forms, based on the Cartan exterior derivative and originally developed for tensor fields, in a very compact way. To this end, differential electromagnetic forms are first compared to conventional tensors. Then, using the local isomorphism between the O (3,C) and SL (2,C) groups supplying the well known connection between complex vectors and traceless second rank spinors, they are generalized to spinor electromagnetism and to Proca fields. These differential forms are finally expressed in terms of Hertz potentials.

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Dr. Pierre Hillion