2020 An Overview of the History of Projective Representations of Groups
Takeshi Hirai
J. Geom. Symmetry Phys. 56: 1-29 (2020). DOI: 10.7546/jgsp-56-2020-1-29

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An overview of the history of projective representations (= spin representations) of groups, preceded by the prehistory of studies on the theory of quaternion due to Rodrigues and Hamilton. Beginning with Schur, we cover many mathematicians until today, and also physicists Pauli and Dirac.

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Takeshi Hirai. "An Overview of the History of Projective Representations of Groups." J. Geom. Symmetry Phys. 56 1 - 29, 2020. https://doi.org/10.7546/jgsp-56-2020-1-29

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Published: 2020
First available in Project Euclid: 23 November 2020

MathSciNet: MR4178370
Digital Object Identifier: 10.7546/jgsp-56-2020-1-29

Rights: Copyright © 2020 Institute of Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

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