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The aim of this chapter is to develop the concept of a spin group and certain related ideas such as spin structures, spinor representations and spinor bundles. These all play a crucial role in positive scalar curvature geometry, which we will explore in subsequent sections.
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Tuschmann, W., Wraith, D.J. (2015). Clifford algebras and spin. In: Moduli Spaces of Riemannian Metrics. Oberwolfach Seminars, vol 46. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-0948-1_2
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