Acta Physica Polonica B

Vol. 36, No. 1, January 2005, page 121


On Eight Kinds of Spinors

A. Trautman

The eight inequivalent spinorial double covers of the full Lorentz group (L) are described explicitly. Two among them include the antilinear representations of space and time reflections on two-component spinors, discovered in 1976 by Staruszkiewicz. The group of all inequivalent central extensions of (L) by (Z2) has 16 elements and contains an eight-element subgroup of `vectorial' double covers, characterized by the property of being trivial when restricted to the proper Lorentz group.

PACS numbers: 02.20.--a, 03.65.Fd, 04.20.Gz


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