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This chapter is devoted to the replacement of the complex matrices and spinors language by the use of the real Clifford algebra associated with the Minkowski space-time.

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Boudet, R. (2011). Introduction. In: Quantum Mechanics in the Geometry of Space-Time. SpringerBriefs in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19199-2_1

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