Eight-dimensional spinor representation of the Poincaré group

DOI10.1007/BF02114515zbMath0541.22016OpenAlexW2019838623MaRDI QIDQ794788

G. H. Derrick

Publication date: 1984

Published in: International Journal of Theoretical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02114515

zbMATH Keywords

Minkowski spacebilinear formseight-dimensional irreducible representationfour dimensional twistor representationorthochronous proper Poincaré group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10) Applications of Lie groups to the sciences; explicit representations (22E70)

Related Items (4)

The geometry of minimal replacement for the Poincaré group ⋮ Simulation of classical particle trajectories in a complex two-dimensional space ⋮ Classical mechanics with respect to an observer’s past light cone ⋮ The Clifford algebra of differential forms

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