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Son Funeral Home Obituaries, Thoughts? Question: What is the fundamental group of the special orthogonal group SO(n) S O (n), n> 2 n> 2? Clarification: The answer usually given is: Z2 Z 2. That's the all information I learnt yet from Clifford Algebras, Clifford Groups, and a Generalization of the Quaternions. which structural differences are there between these groups? Of course a question like "Is G G isomorphic to SU(n) S U (n) for some n n?" doesn't count. So π0(O(N)) =Z2 π 0 (O (N)) = Z 2, π0(SO(N)) = 0 π 0 (S O (N)) = 0, and for m ≥ 1 m ≥ 1, πm(O(N)) =πm(SO(N)) π m (O (N)) = π m (S O (N)). I also understand the action of this Clifford . Physicists prefer to use hermitian operators, while mathematicians are not biased towards hermitian operators. We define the pinor group Pin(n) Pin (n) as the kernel of the homomorphism N: Γ → R∗ ⋅ 1 N: Γ → R ∗ 1, and the spinor group Spin(n) Spin (n) as Pin(n) ∩Γ+ Pin (n) ∩ Γ +. Which "questions" should I ask to determine which one it is? e. So for instance, while for mathematicians, the Lie algebra so(n) consists of skew-adjoint matrices (with respect to the Euclidean inner product on Rn), physicists prefer to multiply them by I think − i (or maybe May 24, 2017 · Suppose that I have a group G G that is either SU(n) S U (n) (special unitary group) or SO(n) S O (n) (special orthogonal group) for some n n that I don't know. We aren't classifying all representations here, just checking whether particular representations are irreducible, so the existence of the spin representations To add some intuition to this, for vectors in Rn, SL(n) is the space of all the transformations with determinant 1, or in other words, all transformations that keep the volume constant. As for Spin(N) Spin (N), note that is it a double cover of SO(N) S O (N). it is very easy to see that the elements of SO(n) S O (n) are in one-to-one correspondence with the set of orthonormal basis of Rn R n (the set of rows of the matrix of an element of SO(n) S O (n) is such a basis). Such matrices Dec 16, 2024 · is called the norm of Cl(Φ) Cl (Φ). I'm hoping for May 9, 2024 · @FrancescoPolizzi that was easy thanks! So the two ways to look at the tangent space are indeed equivalent, which can be seen using the construction you showed. When N = 1 N = 1, we see that Spin(1) =Z2 Apr 24, 2017 · Welcome to the language barrier between physicists and mathematicians. I require a neat criterion to check, if a path in SO(n) S O (n) is null-homotopic or not. I also understand the action of this Clifford The question really is that simple: Prove that the manifold SO(n) ⊂ GL(n,R) S O (n) ⊂ G L (n, R) is connected. How can this fact be used to show that the dimension of SO(n) S O (n) is n(n−1) 2 n (n 1) 2? I know that an antisymmetric matrix has n(n−1) 2 n (n 1) 2 degrees of freedom, but I can't take this idea any further in the demonstration of the proof.