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Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2011-04-06 Semyon Alesker

The relationship between spinors and Clifford (or geometric) algebra has long been studied, but little consistency may be found between the various approaches. However, when spinors are defined to be elements of the even subalgebra of some…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Matthew R. Francis , Arthur Kosowsky

Spinors are central to physics: all matter (fermions) is made of spinors, and all forces arise from symmetries of spinors. It is common to consider the geometric (Clifford) algebra as the fundamental edifice from which spinors emerge. This…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-02-03 Andrew J. S. Hamilton

We review the concept of a graded bundle as a natural generalisation of a vector bundle. Such geometries are particularly nice examples of more general graded manifolds. With hindsight there are many examples of graded bundles that appear…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-05-12 Andrew J. Bruce , K. Grabowska , J. Grabowski

We use Clifford algebras to construct a unified formalism for studying constant extrinsic curvature immersed surfaces in riemannian and semi-riemannian $3$-manifolds in terms of immersed bilegendrian surfaces in their unitary bundles. As an…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-08-15 Graham Smith

The classification of emergent spinor fields according to modified bilinear covariants is scrutinized, in spacetimes with nontrivial topology, which induce inequivalent spin structures. Extended Clifford algebras, constructed by equipping…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-09 J. M. Hoff da Silva , R. da Rocha

Pinor and spinor fields are sections of the subbundles whose fibers are the representation spaces of the Clifford algebra of the forms, equipped with the Graf product. In this context, pinors and spinors are here considered and the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-08-21 R. Lopes , R. da Rocha

The geometry of nonholonomic bundle gerbes, provided with nonlinear connection structure, and nonholonomic gerbe modules is elaborated as the theory of Clifford modules on nonholonomic manifolds which positively fail to be spin. We explore…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-02-25 Sergiu I. Vacaru , Juan F. González--Hernández

In this article we provide a more detailed account of the geometry and topology of the composite bundle formalism introduced by Tresguerres in Phys. Rev. D 66 (2002) 064025 [1] to accommodate gravitation as a gauge theory. In the first half…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-30 Casey Cartwright , Alex Flournoy

We develop a ready-to-use comprehensive theory for (super) 2-vector bundles over smooth manifolds. It is based on the bicategory of (super) algebras, bimodules, and intertwiners as a model for 2-vector spaces. We discuss symmetric monoidal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-09-12 Peter Kristel , Matthias Ludewig , Konrad Waldorf

The geometric product, defined by Graf on the space of differential forms, endows the sections of the exterior bundle by a structure that is necessary to construct a Clifford algebra. The Graf product is introduced and revisited with a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-07-09 R. Lopes , R. da Rocha

Let X be a smooth projective variety over C. We find the natural notion of semistable orthogonal bundle and construct the moduli space, which we compactify by considering also orthogonal sheaves, i.e. pairs (E,\phi), where E is a torsion…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Tomas L. Gomez , Ignacio Sols

For any simple Lie algebra, a positive integer, and tuple of compatible weights, the conformal blocks bundle is a globally generated vector bundle on the moduli space of pointed rational curves. We classify all $S_n$-invariant vector…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-04-24 Anna Kazanova

Associated with a symmetric Clifford system $\{P_0, P_1,\cdots, P_{m}\}$ on $\mathbb{R}^{2l}$, there is a canonical vector bundle $\eta$ over $S^{l-1}$. For $m=4$ and $8$, we construct explicitly its characteristic map, and determine…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-08-24 Chao Qian , Zizhou Tang , Wenjiao Yan

Just as $\Cstar$ principal bundles provide a geometric realisation of two-dimensional integral cohomology; gerbes or sheaves of groupoids, provide a geometric realisation of three dimensional integral cohomology through their Dixmier-Douady…

dg-ga · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Michael K. Murray

Representations of Spin groups and Clifford algebras derived from the structure of qubit trees are introduced in this work. For ternary trees the construction is more general and reduction to binary trees is formally defined by deletion of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-06 Alexander Yu. Vlasov

Given a bundle gerbe on a compact smooth manifold or, more generally, on a compact \'etale Lie groupoid $M$, we show that the corresponding category of gerbe modules, if it is non-trivial, is equivalent to the category of finitely generated…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2014-01-14 Christoph Schweigert , Christopher Tropp , Alessandro Valentino

In this paper we construct a Poisson algebra bundle whose distributional sections are suitable to represent multilocal observables in classical field theory. To do this, we work with vector bundles over the unordered configuration space of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Alessandra Frabetti , Olga Kravchenko , Leonid Ryvkin

The Hermitian symmetric space $M=\mathrm{EIII}$ appears in the classification of complete simply connected Riemannian manifolds carrying a parallel even Clifford structure. This means the existence of a real oriented Euclidean vector bundle…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-16 Maurizio Parton , Paolo Piccinni

Division algebras have demonstrated their utility in studying non-associative algebras and their connection to the Standard Model through complex Clifford algebras. This article focuses on exploring the connection between these complex…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-19 Armando Reynoso