Clifford Algebras and Spinors

                                                             (Submitted on 16 Jun 2011)

Expository notes on Clifford algebras and spinors with a detailed discussion of Majorana, Weyl, and Dirac spinors. The paper is meant as a review of background material, needed, in particular, in now fashionable theoretical speculations on neutrino masses. It has a more mathematical flavour than the over twenty-seven-year-old "Introduction to Majorana masses" by P.D. Mannheim and includes historical notes and biographical data on past participants in the story.

Comments:	Lecture notes prepared together with Dimitar Nedanovski} (e-mail: dnedanovski@inrne.bas.bg), 32 pages
Subjects:	Mathematical Physics (math-ph); History and Overview (math.HO); History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)
Journal reference:	Bulg.J.Phys.38:3-28,2011
Report number:	CERN-PH-TH/2011-050
Cite as:	arXiv:1106.3197v1 [math-ph]

Submission history

[v1] Thu, 16 Jun 2011 10:59:34 GMT (31kb)