The Spingroup and its actions in discrete Clifford analysis

arXiv1701.08445MaRDI QIDQ6282573FDOQ6282573

Authors: Hilde De Ridder, Frank Sommen 

Publication date: 29 January 2017

Abstract: Recently, it has been established that the discrete star Laplace and the discrete Dirac operator, i.e. the discrete versions of their continuous counterparts when working on the standard grid, are rotation-invariant. This was done starting from the Lie algebra so(m, C) corresponding to the special orthogonal Lie group SO(m), considering its representation in the discrete Clifford algebra setting and proving that these operators are symmetries of the Dirac and Laplace operators. This set-up showed in an abstract way that representation-theoretically the discrete setting mirrors the Euclidean Clifford analysis setting. However from a practical point of view, the group-action remains indispensable for actual calculations. In this paper, we define the discrete Spingroup, which is a double cover of SO(m), and consider its actions on discrete functions. We show that this group-action makes the spaces Hk and Mk into Spin(m)-representations. We will often consider the compliance of our results to the results under the so(m, C)- action.

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