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- From: voros@physics.monash.edu.au (Joe Voros)
- Subject: Re: SU(4), SO(6)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov24.134546.1@physics.monash.edu.au>
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- Organization: Physics Dept, Monash Uni, Melbourne, Australia.
- References: <COLUMBUS.92Nov23103624@strident.think.com>
- Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 02:45:46 GMT
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- columbus@strident.think.com (Michael Weiss) writes:
- > SU(4) is the double cover of SO(6). Has nature made use of this delightful
- > fact?
-
- Hmmm. SU(4) is the starting point of the twistor formalism, I believe,
- and is isomorphic to Spin(0,6), the special clifford group based upon a
- six dimensional metric which may be reduced to all -1's along the
- diagonal. Therein may lie the connection with rotations in six
- dimensions :)
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- Joe Voros
- Department of Physics, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, 3168, Australia.
- voros@physics.monash.edu.au
- Quantum Mechanics is God's way of telling you to mind your P_i's and Q_j's.
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