Explicit Families of Spinor Representations

Abstract

We provide a recipe for building explicit representations of the real Clifford algebras once an explicit family is given in dimensions $1$ through $4$. We further give an explicit construction of spin coordinate systems for a given real spinor module and use it to explicitly compute the parallel transport of spinor fields. We further highlight some novelties such as the relationship with the spectrum of the spinor Dirac operator and the Hodge de Rham operator when a parallel spinor field exists and a brief discussion of spinors along a hypersurface in $\bR^4$. Lastly, we extend our construction to arbitrary signature quadratic forms thus providing a complete and explicit family of spinor representations for all mixed signature Clifford algberas. We show that in all cases the spinor representations can be expressed as tensor products of multi-vectors over the fields $\bR$, $\bC$, and $\bH$.