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What is the difference between a spinor and a vector or a tensor?
Why do we call a 1/2 spin particle satisfying the Dirac equation a spinor, and not a vector or a tensor?
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Symmetrical Spinors and Symmetrical Tensors
In Quantum Electrodynamics by Landau and Lifshiz there is the following:
The correspondence between the spinor $\zeta^{\alpha \dot{\beta}}$ and
the 4-vector is a particular case of a general ...
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Some more questions on conformal spinors of $SO(n,2)$
This is somewhat of a continuation of my previous question.
I had stated there that a conformal spinor ($V$) of $SO(n,2)$ can be created by taking a direct sum of two $SO(n-1,1)$ spinors $Q$ and $S$ ...
