Clifford Algebras and Spinors
Mathematical Physics
2011-10-28 v2 History and Overview
math.MP
History and Philosophy of Physics
Abstract
Expository notes on Clifford algebras and spinors with a detailed discussion of Majorana, Weyl, and Dirac spinors. The paper is meant as a review of background material, needed, in particular, in now fashionable theoretical speculations on neutrino masses. It has a more mathematical flavour than the over twenty-seven-year-old "Introduction to Majorana masses" by P.D. Mannheim and includes historical notes and biographical data on past participants in the story.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.1106.3197,
title = {Clifford Algebras and Spinors},
author = {Ivan Todorov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1106.3197},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
Lecture notes prepared together with Dimitar Nedanovski (e-mail: dnedanovski@inrne.bas.bg), 32 pages. References added; footnote amended