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Spinor representation

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Summary

A representation of a spin group that does not generally descend to the corresponding orthogonal group.

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Notes

Real, complex, Weyl, Majorana, and Dirac spinors exist under different dimensional and signature conditions.

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Spin groupSpinor representation

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Authored explanation

A spinor representation realizes the spin group linearly, usually through a module over the associated Clifford algebra; a particular representation is additional chosen data.

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The target is a model, idealization, restricted ansatz, approximation scheme, phenomenological fit, or historical representation used for the source system or theory. It need not have a universal small error parameter and is not thereby a controlled limit or effective theory. The edge label and detail must identify the precise status.

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  • Wikipedia — Spinor — Spinor · encyclopedic reference · source ID wp-spinor_representation
  • nLab — spinor — spinor · mathematical reference · source ID nlab-spinor_representation

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Spinor representationSpin one-half

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Spin-1/21/2 states transform in spinor representations.

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A mathematical concept supplies part of the formal language, state space, representation, or analytic machinery used by a scientific or mathematical-physics concept. The source is the mathematical predecessor; this does not claim that physical content follows from mathematics alone.

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Spinor representationSpinor field

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Spinor fields transform in spin representations of the Lorentz spin group.

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A mathematical concept supplies part of the formal language, state space, representation, or analytic machinery used by a scientific or mathematical-physics concept. The source is the mathematical predecessor; this does not claim that physical content follows from mathematics alone.

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