The primitive idempotents of the Clifford algebras and the amorphic spinor fibre bundles (Q1825255)

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The primitive idempotents of the Clifford algebras and the amorphic spinor fibre bundles
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    The primitive idempotents of the Clifford algebras and the amorphic spinor fibre bundles (English)
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    The author intends to clarify the ``primitive idempotent'' method of defining spinor bundles as fields of minimal ideals in some Clifford algebra bundles. He introduces the fundamental notion of ``geometric Cliffordian spinoriality groups'', which is similar to that of ``groupes de spinorialité'' defined previously by him, but not equivalent. Existence conditions depend on the choice of the standard left ideal and provide a ``chaotic character'' for physics. Existence conditions of primitive idempotent fields imply drastic conditions. Given several examples, he states that the primitive idempotent method brings many algebraic tools, but raises a lot of geometric obstacles and cannot replace, improve or generalize the well-known ``r-isotropic'' approach.
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    primitive idempotent
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    spinor bundles
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    minimal ideals
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    Clifford algebra bundles
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    geometric Cliffordian spinoriality groups
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