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In this paper we combine methods from projective geometry, Klein's model, and Clifford algebra. We develop a Clifford algebra whose Pin group is a double cover of the group of regular projective transformations. The Clifford algebra we use…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2014-05-12 Daniel Klawitter

A comparison among different constructions of the quaternionic $4$-form $\Phi_{Sp(2)Sp(1)}$ and of the Cayley calibration $\Phi_{Spin(7)}$ shows that one can start for them from the same collections of "K\"ahler 2-forms", entering in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-08-25 Kai Brynne M. Boydon , Paolo Piccinni

This article uses Clifford algebra of definite signature to derive octonions and the Lie exceptional algebra G2 from calibrations using Pin(7). This is simpler than the usual exterior algebra derivation and uncovers a subalgebra of Spin(7)…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2025-05-12 G. P. Wilmot

Let $G$ be a real compact Lie group, such that $G=G^0\rtimes C_2$, with $G^0$ simple. Here $G^0$ is the connected component of $G$ containing the identity and $C_2$ is the cyclic group of order $2$. We give a criterion for whether an…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2020-12-08 Jyotirmoy Ganguly , Rohit Joshi

Electromagnetic field is considered in the framework of Clifford algebra $\C_2$ over a field of complex numbers. It is shown here that a modulo 2 periodicity of complex Clifford algebras may be connected with electromagnetic field.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Vadim V. Varlamov

In this paper we start from a basic notion of process, which we structure into two groupoids, one orthogonal and one symplectic. By introducing additional structure, we convert these groupoids into orthogonal and symplectic Clifford…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-11-12 B. J. Hiley

Let $F$ be a non-Archimedean local field and let $\mathcal{O}_{F}$ be its ring of integers. The orbit of an irreducible representation $\rho$ of $\mathrm{GL}_n(\mathcal{O}_F)$ is a conjugacy class in $\mathfrak{gl}_n(\mathcal{O}_F)$…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2022-11-08 Anna Szumowicz

We consider Brownian motions and other processes (Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes, spherical Brownian motions) on various sets of symmetric matrices constructed from algebra structures, and look at their associated spectral measure processes.…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-12-24 Dominique Bakry , Marguerite Zani

We discuss a Clifford algebra framework for discrete symmetry groups (such as reflection, Coxeter, conformal and modular groups), leading to a surprising number of new results. Clifford algebras allow for a particularly simple description…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2018-10-12 Pierre-Philippe Dechant

We consider the Clifford algebra and the Clifford group associated with any quadratic module, degenerate or not, over an arbitrary commutative ring with 1. We determine some of the important subalgebras of the Clifford algebra under some…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2021-12-10 Shaul Zemel

We show that all spin groups of non-definite, quinary quadratic forms over a field with characteristic 0 can be represented as 2 by 2 matrices with entries in an associated quaternion algebra. Over local and global fields, we further study…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2019-09-30 Arseniy Sheydvasser

Given an oriented surface of positive genus with finitely many punctures, we classify the finite orbits of the mapping class group action on the moduli space of semisimple complex special linear two dimensional representations of the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-06-29 Indranil Biswas , Subhojoy Gupta , Mahan Mj , Junho Peter Whang

Real Clifford algebras for arbitrary number of space and time dimensions as well as their representations in terms of spinors are reviewed and discussed. The Clifford algebras are classified in terms of isomorphic matrix algebras of real,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-08-07 Stefan Floerchinger

A group $\Gamma$ is said to be periodic if for any $g$ in $\Gamma$ there is a positive integer $n$ with $g^n=id$. We first prove that a finitely generated periodic group acting on the 2-sphere $\SS^2$ by $C^1$-diffeomorphisms with a finite…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-11-12 Nancy Guelman , Isabelle Liousse

We give a full classification of Lie algebras of specific type in complexified Clifford algebras. These sixteen Lie algebras are direct sums of subspaces of quaternion types. We obtain isomorphisms between these Lie algebras and classical…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-12-24 D. S. Shirokov

We show how Coxeter's work implies a bijection between complex reflection groups of rank two and real reflection groups in $O(3)$. We also consider this magic square of reflections and rotations in the framework of Clifford algebras: we…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2024-01-23 Ragnar-Olaf Buchweitz , Eleonore Faber , Colin Ingalls

We show that complex representations of Clifford algebra can always be reduced either to a real or to a quaternionic algebra depending on signature of complex space thus showing that complex spinors are unavoidably either real Majorana…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-04-05 Marco Budinich

We consider a construction of the fundamental spin representations of the simple Lie algebras $\mathfrak{so}(n)$ in terms of binary arithmetic of fixed width integers. This gives the spin matrices as a Lie subalgebra of a…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2024-03-05 Henrik Winther

We suggest Clifford algebra as a useful simplifying language for present quantum dynamics. Clifford algebras arise from representations of the permutation groups as they arise from representations of the rotation groups. Aggregates using…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 James Baugh , David Ritz Finkelstein , Andrei Galiautdinov , Heinrich Saller

We survey the existing parts of a classification of finite groups generated by orthogonal transformations in a finite-dimensional Euclidean space whose fixed point subspace has codimension one or two and extend it to a complete…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2017-11-02 Christian Lange , Marina A. Mikhailova