Simple spinors and real structures

DOI10.1063/1.529789zbMath0818.15020OpenAlexW2013028811MaRDI QIDQ3991996

Andrzej Trautman, Wojciech Kopczyński

Publication date: 28 June 1992

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.529789

zbMATH Keywords

Pin groupmultivectorsreal indexsimple spinors

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spinor and twistor methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R25) Spin and Spin({}^c) geometry (53C27) Clifford algebras, spinors (15A66)

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