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One shows that the quaternion and the biquaternion may be considered as real forms of the Pauli and the Dirac spinors. Then relations with the real Hestenes spinor are clarified.
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Boudet, R. (2011). Relation Between the Dirac Spinor and the Hestenes Spinor. 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_15
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