The spinoral chessboard (Q4040140)

The book under review represents a first step towards the study of spinors and simple spinors in higher-dimensional real pseudo-Euclidean spaces that are of possible interest to physicists. The authors give all necessary mathematical notions including vector spaces with real and complex structure, inner products in vector spaces, algebras and their representations. Among useful techniques presented are Clifford algebras associated with real vector spaces with scalar products (in particular their representations, grading and periodicities), general properties of spinor spaces, bilinear forms and conjugations. As the authors write in the preface of the book special attention is paid to research work in theoretical physics, where often, besides theorems and propositions, algorithms are required for explicit calculations.