An elementary, first principles approach to the indefinite spin groups

DOI10.1007/s00006-016-0671-0zbMath1367.15036arXiv1512.04587OpenAlexW2963445663MaRDI QIDQ2361386

Emily Herzig, Viswanath Ramakrishna

Publication date: 30 June 2017

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.04587

zbMATH Keywords

linear transformationKronecker productsquaternionsexponentiationalgebra of matricesspin groupsgroups of matricesbivectorsindefiniteClifford conjugationdidactic

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spinor and twistor methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R25) Clifford algebras, spinors (15A66) Algebraic systems of matrices (15A30) Linear transformations, semilinear transformations (15A04)

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