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Cyclic structures of Cliffordian supergroups and particle representations of Spin_+(1,3)

Mathematical Physics 2014-10-03 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Theory math.MP Quantum Physics

Abstract

Supergroups are defined in the framework of \dZ2\dZ_2-graded Clifford algebras over the fields of real and complex numbers, respectively. It is shown that cyclic structures of complex and real supergroups are defined by Brauer-Wall groups related with the modulo 2 and modulo 8 periodicities of the complex and real Clifford algebras. Particle (fermionic and bosonic) representations of a universal covering (spinor group \spin+(1,3)\spin_+(1,3)) of the proper orthochronous Lorentz group are constructed via the Clifford algebra formalism. Complex and real supergroups are defined on the representation system of \spin+(1,3)\spin_+(1,3). It is shown that a cyclic (modulo 2) structure of the complex supergroup is equivalent to a supersymmetric action, that is, it converts fermionic representations into bosonic representations and vice versa. The cyclic action of the real supergroup leads to a much more high-graded symmetry related with the modulo 8 periodicity of the real Clifford algebras. This symmetry acts on the system of real representations of \spin+(1,3)\spin_+(1,3).

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@article{arxiv.1207.6162,
  title  = {Cyclic structures of Cliffordian supergroups and particle representations of Spin_+(1,3)},
  author = {V. V. Varlamov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1207.6162},
  year   = {2014}
}

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22 pages. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1107.4156, arXiv:math-ph/0203059, arXiv:math-ph/0108022, arXiv:math-ph/0405040