• mathematical physics, higher-dimensional gamma matrices generalize to arbitrary dimension the four-dimensional Gamma matrices of Dirac, which are a mainstay...
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  • 3}(\mathbb {R} )~.} It is also possible to define higher-dimensional gamma matrices. When interpreted as the matrices of the action of a set of orthogonal basis...
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  • Spin matrix (redirect from Spin matrices)
    of Pauli matrices Gamma matrices, which can be represented in terms of the Pauli matrices. Higher-dimensional gamma matrices In pure mathematics and physics:...
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  • article. Rotation matrices are square matrices, with real entries. More specifically, they can be characterized as orthogonal matrices with determinant...
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    In mathematical physics and mathematics, the Pauli matrices are a set of three 2 × 2 complex matrices that are traceless, Hermitian, involutory and unitary...
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  • physics, 4×4 complex matrices or 8×8 real matrices are needed. Weyl–Brauer matrices Higher-dimensional gamma matrices Clifford module bundle Atiyah, Michael;...
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  • matrices to n dimensions, and are a specific construction of higher-dimensional gamma matrices. They are named for Richard Brauer and Hermann Weyl, and were...
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  • Exterior algebra Fierz identity Gamma matrices Generalized Clifford algebra Geometric algebra Higher-dimensional gamma matrices Hypercomplex number Octonion...
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  • defined for higher-dimensional gamma matrices, with an explicit construction for Weyl spinors given in the article on Weyl–Brauer matrices. Note, however...
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  • four-dimensional supergravity with one gravitino. One important direction in the supergravity program was to try to construct four-dimensional N = 8...
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    Square matrices, matrices with the same number of rows and columns, play a major role in matrix theory. Square matrices of a given dimension form a noncommutative...
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  • identified with the group of these matrices under matrix multiplication. These matrices are known as "special orthogonal matrices", explaining the notation SO(3)...
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  • transformations from the vector space into itself and n-by-n square matrices. Hence, in a finite-dimensional vector space, it is equivalent to define eigenvalues and...
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    rotation matrices X, Y, Z, and their multiplication order depend on the choices taken by the user about the definition of both rotation matrices and Euler...
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    Throughout, italic non-bold capital letters are 4 × 4 matrices, while non-italic bold letters are 3 × 3 matrices. Writing the coordinates in column vectors and...
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  • n\rfloor }} -dimensional representation of the Clifford algebra, the representation that acts on the Dirac spinors, consists of the gamma matrices. When n...
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  • the gamma matrices, which represent the generators of the algebra. The gamma matrices are a set of four 4 × 4 {\displaystyle 4\times 4} matrices { γ μ...
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    terms of the gamma function. The gamma function can also be used to calculate "volume" and "area" of n-dimensional hyperspheres. The gamma function's ability...
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  • Jones calculus (category Matrices (mathematics))
    Optical Society of America. The Jones matrices are operators that act on the Jones vectors defined above. These matrices are implemented by various optical...
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  • {\left({\tfrac {1}{8}}\omega _{\mu \nu }[\gamma _{\mu },\gamma _{\nu }]\right)}\psi ,} where γν are gamma matrices, and ωμν is an antisymmetric 4 × 4 matrix...
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  • positive-definite random matrices (i.e. matrix-valued random variables). These distributions are of great importance in the estimation of covariance matrices in multivariate...
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    matrix gamma distribution and the Wishart distribution are multivariate generalizations of the gamma distribution (samples are positive-definite matrices rather...
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    "flat" 4-dimensional Minkowski space – an example of a spacetime. Minkowski spacetime appears to be very similar to the standard 3-dimensional Euclidean...
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  • mathematically as problems concerning large, random matrices. In nuclear physics, random matrices were introduced by Eugene Wigner to model the nuclei...
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    equation Generalizations of Pauli matrices Wigner D-matrix Weyl–Brauer matrices Higher-dimensional gamma matrices Joos–Weinberg equation, alternative...
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  • applications of higher dimensional objects. In 1987, Eric Bergshoeff, Ergin Sezgin, and Paul Townsend showed that eleven-dimensional supergravity includes...
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    well as rows. The n-dimensional parallelotope spanned by the rows of an n × n Hadamard matrix has the maximum possible n-dimensional volume among parallelotopes...
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    based on matrices (the holonomy) and these matrices satisfy identities. Given any two SU ⁡ ( 2 ) {\displaystyle \operatorname {SU} (2)} matrices A {\displaystyle...
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    of physical space Dirac–Kähler equation Gross–Neveu model Higher-dimensional gamma matrices Nonlinear Schrödinger equation Pokhozhaev's identity for the...
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    Marchenko–Pastur distribution (category Random matrices)
    distribution describes the spectrum of random matrices with mean 0, the eigenvalues of correlation matrices that fall inside of the aforementioned interval...
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