Spin invariants of multivectors

DOI10.1007/BF03041221MaRDI QIDQ1386760zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Johannes Maks

Publication date 3 December 1998

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf03041221

zbMATH Keywords

\(k\)-vectorsClifford algebrasdeterminantmultivectorsspin invariants

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Determinants, permanents, traces, other special matrix functions (15A15) Clifford algebras, spinors (15A66)

Review text

Let \(\text{Cl}(p,q)\) be a real universal Clifford algebra which is isomorphic to the matrix algebra \(R(2m)\). It is shown that on the linear subspace \(\text{Cl}^{k}(p,q)\) of \(k\)-vectors the determinant can be written as a product of two polynomials of degree \(m\). The definition of a decomposable \(k\)-vector is introduced and it is proved that for any such vector \(u\) we have \(\text{det}(u)=+Q^{m}(u)\) with \(Q\) being a quadratic form associated to \(\text{Cl}(p,q)\). Some spin invariants on \(\text{Cl}^{k}(p,q)\) are considered, in particular those on the bivector spaces \(\text{Cl}^{2}(p,p)\) for \(p=2\) and \(p=3\).

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