On complex representations of Clifford algebra

DOI10.1007/S00006-018-0930-3MaRDI QIDQ1728281zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Marco Budinich

Publication date 22 February 2019

Published in Advances in Applied Clifford Algebras (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.03126

zbMATH Keywords

Minkowski spaceMajorana spinors

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Clifford algebras, spinors (15A66)

Abstract: We show that complex representations of Clifford algebra can always be reduced either to a real or to a quaternionic algebra depending on signature of complex space thus showing that complex spinors are unavoidably either real Majorana spinors or quaternionic spinors. We use this result to support (1,3) signature for Minkowski space.

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