On the relationship between twistors and Clifford algebras

DOI10.1007/BF00400713MaRDI QIDQ1076110zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors B. George

Publication date 1985

Published in Letters in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00400713

zbMATH Keywords

conformal groupMinkowski space-timespinor spacetwistors

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Clifford algebras, spinors (15A66)

Review text

Let C be the Clifford algebra associated with the complexification of a Minkowski space-time M, so that C is the ring of 4 by 4 complex matrices, and let S be the spinor space of C, that is, a minimal left ideal. The authors define a space of index one twistors to be S together with the natural representation of the conformal group of M via C. There is an isomorphism between \(S\otimes S\) and C which the authors refine to give the symmetric and antisymmetric parts of \(S\otimes S\) in terms of the grading in C; this permits an interpretation of the formalism of skew products of twistors in terms of the product in the Clifford algebra.

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