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\title{Clifford algebras: an introduction} | ||
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@book{garling2011clifford, | ||
title={Clifford algebras: an introduction}, | ||
author={Garling, David JH}, | ||
volume={78}, | ||
year={2011}, | ||
publisher={Cambridge University Press} | ||
} | ||
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\title{Jadczyk's Notes on Clifford Algebras} | ||
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@article{jadczyk2019notes, | ||
title={Notes on Clifford Algebras}, | ||
author={Jadczyk, Arkadiusz}, | ||
year={2019} | ||
} | ||
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\title{Geometric algebra with applications in engineering} | ||
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@book{perwass2009geometric, | ||
title={Geometric algebra with applications in engineering}, | ||
author={Perwass, Christian and Edelsbrunner, Herbert and Kobbelt, Leif and Polthier, Konrad}, | ||
volume={4}, | ||
year={2009}, | ||
publisher={Springer} | ||
} | ||
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\import{base-macros} | ||
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\texdef{Spin group}{perwass2009geometric}{ | ||
A versor is a multivector that can be expressed as the geometric product of a number of non-null 1-vectors. That is, a versor $\boldsymbol{V}$ can be written as $\boldsymbol{V}=\prod_{i=1}^k \boldsymbol{n}_i$, where $\left\{\boldsymbol{n}_1, \ldots, \boldsymbol{n}_k\right\} \subset \mathbb{G}_{p, q}^{\varnothing 1}$ with $k \in \mathbb{N}^{+}$, is a set of not necessarily linearly independent vectors. | ||
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The subset of versors of $\mathbb{G}_{p, q}$ together with the geometric product, forms a group, the Clifford group, denoted by $\mathfrak{G}_{p, q}$. | ||
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A versor $\boldsymbol{V} \in \mathfrak{G}_{p, q}$ is called unitary if $\boldsymbol{V}^{-1}=\tilde{\boldsymbol{V}}$, i.e. $\boldsymbol{V} \widetilde{\boldsymbol{V}}=+1$. | ||
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The set of unitary versors of $\mathfrak{G}_{p, q}$ forms a subgroup $\mathfrak{P}_{p, q}$ of the Clifford group $\mathfrak{G}_{p, q}$, called the pin group. | ||
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A versor $\boldsymbol{V} \in \mathfrak{G}_{p, q}$ is called a spinor if it is unitary $(\boldsymbol{V} \tilde{\boldsymbol{V}}=1)$ and can be expressed as the geometric product of an even number of 1-vectors. This implies that a spinor is a linear combination of blades of even grade. | ||
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The set of spinors of $\mathfrak{G}_{p, q}$ forms a subgroup of the pin group $\mathfrak{P}_{p, q}$, called the spin group, which is denoted by $\mathfrak{S}_{p, q}$. | ||
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\import{base-macros} | ||
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\texdef{Spin group}{jadczyk2019notes}{ | ||
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We define the Clifford group $\Gamma=\Gamma(q)$ to be the group of all invertible elements $u \in \mathrm{Cl}(q)$ which have the property that uyu ${ }^{-1}$ is in $M$ whenever $y$ is in $M$. We define $\Gamma(q)^{ \pm}$as the intersection of $\Gamma(q)$ and $\mathrm{Cl}(q)_{ \pm}$. | ||
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For every element $u \in \Gamma(q)$ we define the spinor norm $N(u)$ by the formula | ||
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N(u)=\tau(u) u, | ||
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where $\tau$ is the main involution of the Clifford algebra $\mathrm{Cl}(q)$. | ||
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The following groups are called spin groups: | ||
$$ | ||
\begin{aligned} | ||
& \operatorname{Pin}(q):=\left\{s \in \Gamma(q)^{+} \cup \Gamma(q)^{-}: N(s)= \pm 1\right\} \\ | ||
& \operatorname{Spin}(q):=\left\{s \in \Gamma(q)^{+}: N(s)= \pm 1\right\} \\ | ||
& \operatorname{Spin}^{+}(q):=\left\{s \in \Gamma(q)^{+}: N(s)=+1\right\} . | ||
\end{aligned} | ||
$$ | ||
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\texdef{Spin group}{garling2011clifford}{ | ||
Suppose that $(E, q)$ is a regular quadratic space. We consider the action of $\mathcal{G}(E, q)$ on $\mathcal{A}(E, q)$ by adjoint conjugation. We set | ||
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A d_g^{\prime}(a)=g a g^{-1}, | ||
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for $g \in \mathcal{G}(E, q)$ and $a \in \mathcal{A}(E, q)$. | ||
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We restrict attention to those elements of $\mathcal{G}(E, q)$ which stabilize $E$. The Clifford group $\Gamma=\Gamma(E, q)$ is defined as | ||
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\left\{g \in \mathcal{G}(E, q): A d_g^{\prime}(x) \in E \text { for } x \in E\right\} . | ||
$$ | ||
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If $g \in \Gamma(E, q)$, we set $\alpha(g)(x)=A d_g^{\prime}(x)$. Then $\alpha(g) \in G L(E)$, and $\alpha$ is a homomorphism of $\Gamma$ into $G L(E) . \alpha$ is called the graded vector representation of $\Gamma$. | ||
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It is customary to scale the elements of $\Gamma(E, q)$; we set | ||
$$ | ||
\begin{aligned} | ||
\operatorname{Pin}_{\infty}(E, q) & =\{g \in \Gamma(E, q): \Delta(g)= \pm 1\}, \\ | ||
\Gamma_1(E, q) & =\{g \in \Gamma(E, q): \Delta(g)=1\} . | ||
\end{aligned} | ||
$$ | ||
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If $(E, q)$ is a Euclidean space, then $\operatorname{Pin}(E, q)=\Gamma_1(E, q)$; otherwise, $\Gamma_1(E, q)$ is a subgroup of $\operatorname{Pin}(E, q)$ of index 2. | ||
We have a short exact sequence | ||
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1 \longrightarrow D_2 \xrightarrow{\subseteq} \operatorname{Pin}(E, q) \xrightarrow{\alpha} O(E, q) \longrightarrow 1 ; | ||
$$ | ||
$\operatorname{Pin}_{\infty}(E, q)$ is a double cover of $O(E, q)$. | ||
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In fact there is more interest in the subgroup $\operatorname{Spin}(E, q)$ of $\operatorname{Pin}(E, q)$ consisting of products of an even number of unit vectors in $E$. Thus $\operatorname{Spin}(E, q)=\operatorname{Pin}(E, q) \cap \mathcal{A}^{+}(E, q)$ and | ||
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\operatorname{Spin}(E, q)=\left\{g \in \mathcal{A}^{+}(E, q): g E=E g \text { and } \Delta(g)= \pm 1\right\} . | ||
$$ | ||
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If $x, y$ are unit vectors in $E$ then $\alpha(x y)=\alpha(x) \alpha(y) \in S O(E, q)$, so that $\alpha(\operatorname{Spin}(E, q)) \subseteq S O(E, q)$. Conversely, every element of $S O(E, q)$ is the product of an even number of simple reflections, and so $S O(E, q) \subseteq \alpha\left(\operatorname{Spin}(E, q)\right)$. Thus $\alpha\left(\operatorname{Spin}(E, q)\right)=S O(E, q)$, and we have a short exact sequence. | ||
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1 \longrightarrow D_2 \xrightarrow{\subseteq} \operatorname{Spin}(E, q) \xrightarrow{\alpha} S O(E, q) \longrightarrow 1 ; | ||
$$ | ||
$\operatorname{Spin}(E, q)$ is a double cover of $S O(E, q)$. | ||
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Note also that if $a \in \operatorname{Spin}(E, q)$ and $x \in E$ then $\alpha(a)(x)=a x a^{-1}$; conjugation and adjoint conjugation by elements of $\operatorname{Spin}(E, q)$ are the same. | ||
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