The zero set of a twistor spinor in any metric signature (Q2515994)

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The zero set of a twistor spinor in any metric signature
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    7 August 2015
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    In Chapter 2, ``Basic facts about twistor spinors and conformal Cartan geometry'', the reader finds the statement that ``[\dots] there is a natural double covering from \(\mathrm{Spin}(p,q)\) onto \(\mathrm{SO}(p,q)\)''. According to common denotations \(\mathrm{SO}(p,q)\) is the special pseudo-orthogonal group of a quadratic form with signature \((p,q)\) on a real vector space, and \(\mathrm{Spin}(p,q)\) is the reduced Clifford group which is defined by means of the real Clifford algebra belonging to this quadratic form. If the quadratic form is definite, then the statement above is correct. If it is indefinite, however, this statement is generally wrong: in case of signature \((2,1)\) for instance there can be easily found an element of \(\mathrm{SO}(2,1)\) which is not an image of an element of \(\mathrm{Spin}(2,1)\). The paper will need a revision.
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    conformal Killing spinors
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    parabolic geometry
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    parallel spinor
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    projective structure
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