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Emergent Majorana fermions and their restricted Clifford algebra

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We present an exercise that bridges between mathematics (restricted Clifford algebra) and physics (Majorana fermions).

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Dedicated to Ludvig Faddeev on his 80th birthday. Ludvig perfectly exemplifies a mathematical physicist: significant contributions to mathematics (algebraic properties of integrable systems) and physics (quantum field theory).

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Jackiw, R. Emergent Majorana fermions and their restricted Clifford algebra. Theor Math Phys 181, 1164–1168 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11232-014-0206-6

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