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groups that lie beyond the level of this course The key to constructing an interesting exact sequence 1 Z2Z Spinq SOq 1 is to introduce a certain associative kalgebra Cq CVq that contains V and has dimension 2n as a kvector space its group of units will contain Spinq Such algebras are
In mathematics the spin group denoted Spinn 1 2 is a Lie group whose underlying manifold is the double cover of the special orthogonal group SOn SOn R such that there exists a short exact sequence of Lie groups when n 2 The group multiplication law on the double cover is given by lifting the multiplication on As a Lie group Spinn therefore shares its
Lie groups are determined by their linear approximation at the identity element This leads to the notion of the Lie algebra of a Lie group spin representations and spin groups representation theory of compact Lie 8 groups again following K and more generally compact topological groups including existence of the Haar measure and
To a Lie group is associated a single Lie algebra but several Lie groups may Examples SpinnC is simply connected double cover of SOnC SLnC is the simplyconnected nfold cover of PSLnC If g is the Lie algebra of the Lie group G then Ug will be the algebra of leftinvariant differential operators onG An alternative
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the rst few spin groups the ones that behave in a nongeneric way Spin2 is a circle doublecovering the circle SO2 Spin3 SU2 Sp1 and the spin representation is the fundamental representation of SU2 The Dynkin diagram is a single isolated node Spin4 SU2 SU2 and the halfspin representations are the funda
Spin1 is isomorphic to Z 2 and not connected Spin2 is isomorphic to the circle group and not simply connected son nn12 Sp2nR symplectic group real symplectic matrices Note that a complex Lie group is defined as a complex analytic manifold that is also a group whose multiplication and inversion are each given by a
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The groups Spinn 338 75 Spinor representations 349 76 Weight spaces for the spinor representations 357 77 Spinor trace formulas 365 7A The Pfaffian 370 Lie groups particularly discussing roots of their Lie algebras and weights of their representations We also have material on the structure of simple Lie
in Spinn once we go around the the circle of SOn rotations in the i j plane twice This is a reflection of the fact that Spinn is a doublecovering of the group SOn Just as the adjoint action of the Lie algebra of Spinn on itself is given by taking commutators the Lie algebra representation on vectors is also given by
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bra hence every Lie group can be represented as a spin group Thus the computational power of geometric algebra is available to simplify the analysis and applications of Lie groups and Lie algebras The spin version of the general linear group is thoroughly analyzed and an invariant method for constructing real spin representations
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and SU2 are Lie groups Definition 13If Gand Hare Lie groups a map f GHis a homomorphism of Lie groups if it is smooth and a group homomorphism Later we will see that for n3 Spinn is a universal cover of SOn Then the following theorem guarantees that Spinn also has a Lie group structure Theorem 14 Let Gbe a connected Lie