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Bilinear Forms and Fierz Identities for Real Spin Representations

Eric O. Korman, George Sparling

英文摘要:

Given a real representation of the Clifford algebra corresponding to $R^{p+q}$ with metric of signature $(p,q)$, we demonstrate the existence of two natural bilinear forms on the space of spinors. With the Clifford action of $k$-forms on spinors, the bilinear forms allow us to relate two spinors with elements of the exterior algebra. From manipulations of a rank four spinorial tensor, we are able to find a general class of identities which, upon specializing from four spinors to two spinors and one spinor in signatures (1,3) and (10,1), yield some well-known Fierz identities. We will see, surprisingly, that the identities we construct are partly encoded in certain involutory real matrices that resemble the Krawtchouk matrices.

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