Abstract
The first author’s earlier work which showed how Clifford algebras could be used to construct the basic spin representations and characters of reflection groups over the field of complex numbers is now extended to the field of real numbers.
Notation. R, C, H denote the reals, complexes and quaternions, respectively. If K is any field, K n denotes the n -dimensional vector space over K and K(n) denotes the matrix algebra of n × n matrices over K.
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Morris, A.O., Makhool, M.K. (1992). Real projective representations of real Clifford algebras and reflection groups. In: Micali, A., Boudet, R., Helmstetter, J. (eds) Clifford Algebras and their Applications in Mathematical Physics. Fundamental Theories of Physics, vol 47. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8090-8_8
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