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In this review, basic definitions of spin geometry are given and some of its applications to supersymmetry, supergravity and condensed matter physics are summarized. Clifford algebras and spinors are defined and the first-order differential…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-01-30 Ümit Ertem

This paper is intended to describe twistors via the paravector model of Clifford algebras and to relate such description to conformal maps in the Clifford algebra over R(4,1), besides pointing out some applications of the pure spinor…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Roldao da Rocha , Jayme Vaz

Spinor structure and internal symmetries are considered within one theoretical framework based on the generalized spin and abstract Hilbert space. Complex momentum is understood as a generating kernel of the underlying spinor structure. It…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-12-07 V. V. Varlamov

We describe spinors in Minkowskian spaces with arbitrary signature and their role in the classification of space-time superalgebras and their R-symmetries in any dimension.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-25 Sergio Ferrara

We investigate the relationship between conformal and spin structure on lorentzian manifolds and see how their compatibility influences the formulation of rigid supersymmetric field theories. In dimensions three, four, six and ten, we show…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-09-28 Paul de Medeiros

We study the geometric properties of a $2m$-dimensional complex manifold $\mathcal{M}$ admitting a holomorphic reduction of the frame bundle to the structure group $P \subset \mathrm{Spin}(2m,\mathbb{C})$, the stabiliser of the line spanned…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-05-03 Arman Taghavi-Chabert

We further explore the idea that physics takes place in Clifford space which should be considered as a generalization of spacetime. Following the old observation that spinors can be represented as members of left ideals of Clifford algebra,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Matej Pavsic

We determine the necessary and sufficient conditions on the metric and the four-form for the most general bosonic supersymmetric configurations of D=11 supergravity which admit a null Killing spinor i.e. a Killing spinor which can be used…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Jerome P. Gauntlett , Jan B. Gutowski , Stathis Pakis

The Kerr theorem is revisited as part of the twistor program in six dimensions. The relationship between pure spinors and integrable 3-planes is investigated. The real condition for Lorentzian spacetimes is seen to induce a projective…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-06-20 Bruno Carneiro da Cunha

Based on a fact that complex Clifford algebras of even dimension are isomorphic to the matrix ones, we consider bundles in Clifford algebras whose structure group is a general linear group acting on a Clifford algebra by left…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-02-12 G. Sardanashvily , A. Yarygin

In this paper, theory and construction of spinor representations of real Clifford algebras $\cl_{p,q}$ in minimal left ideals are reviewed. Connection with a general theory of semisimple rings is shown. The actual computations can be found…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2016-10-11 Rafal Ablamowicz

In this paper, we present a theory for gravity coupled with scalar, SU$(n)$ and spinor fields on manifolds with null-boundary. We perform the symplectic reduction of the space of boundary fields and give the constraints of the theory in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Alberto S. Cattaneo , Filippo Fila-Robattino , Valentino Huang , Manuel Tecchiolli

In this work we explore the structure of Clifford algebras and the representations of the algebraic spinors in quantum information theory. Initially we present an general formulation through elements of left minimal ideals in tensor…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Marco A. S. Trindade , Sergio Floquet , J. D. M. Vianna

General braided counterparts of classical Clifford algebras are introduced and investigated. Braided Clifford algebras are defined as Chevalley-Kahler deformations of the corresponding braided exterior algebras. Analogs of the spinor…

q-alg · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Mico Durdevic , Zbigniew Oziewicz

This paper deals with the classification of spinor fields according to the bilinear covariants in 7 dimensions. The previously investigated Riemannian case is characterized by either one spinor field class, in the real case of Majorana…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-26 L. Bonora , Roldao da Rocha

In this paper we exploit the ideas and formalisms of twistor theory, to show how, on Minkowski space, given a null solution of the wave equation, there are precisely two null directions in $\ker df$, at least one of which is a shear-free…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Mohammad Wehbe

A review of some facts concerning classical spacetime geometry is presented together with a description of the most elementary aspects of the two-component spinor formalisms of Infeld and van der Waerden. Special attention is concentrated…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-12-22 Jorge G. Cardoso

Spinors are used in physics quite extensively. The goal of this study is also the spinor structure lying in the basis of the quaternion algebra. In this paper, first, we have introduced spinors mathematically. Then, we have defined…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2025-04-08 Gamaliel Cerda-Morales

The covariant Hamiltonian formulation for general relativity is studied in terms of self-dual variables on a manifold with an internal and lightlike boundary. At this inner boundary, new canonical variables appear: a spinor and a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-07 Wolfgang Wieland

The form factor bootstrap approach allows to construct the space of local fields in the massive restricted sine-Gordon model. This space has to be isomorphic to that of the corresponding minimal model of conformal field theory. We describe…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 O. Babelon , D. Bernard , F. A. Smirnov