Pauli-Kofink Identities and Pure Spinors

Urbantke, Helmut

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Helmut Urbantke³

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A machinery producing identities between the bilinear covariants of spinors, devised by Pauli and Kofink, is extended to the n-dimensional case and applied to pure spinors.

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Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland
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Urbantke, H. (1993). Pauli-Kofink Identities and Pure Spinors. In: Oziewicz, Z., Jancewicz, B., Borowiec, A. (eds) Spinors, Twistors, Clifford Algebras and Quantum Deformations. Fundamental Theories of Physics, vol 52. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1719-7_6

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