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Rodrigues, W.A., de Oliveira, E.C. (2007). The Hidden Geometrical Nature of Spinors. In: The Many Faces of Maxwell, Dirac and Einstein Equations. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 722. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71293-0_3
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