On the exceptional equivalence of complex Dirac spinors and complex space-time vectors

DOI10.1063/1.527124MaRDI QIDQ4721167zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Patrick L. Nash

Publication date 1986

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1063/1.527124

zbMATH Keywords

spinorDynkin diagramDirac spinors

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of group representations to physics and other areas of science (20C35) Local differential geometry of Lorentz metrics, indefinite metrics (53B30) Applications of local differential geometry to the sciences (53B50) Spin and Spin({}^c) geometry (53C27)

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• The Clifford algebra of differential forms

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