Timeline for Wick rotation and spinors
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| Apr 17, 2016 at 13:21 | comment | added | Alex Shpilkin | This “change of variables” is imaginary, and this means we can no longer be using $\mathrm{SO}(3,1)$, which is a real group. We can either use the complex version, the rather unfamilliar ${}^{\mathbf C}\mathrm{SO}(3,1) = \mathrm{SO}(4,\mathbf C)$, or choose an appropriate real version of it, which is exactly $\mathrm{SO}(4)$. (You can’t always get away with being cavalier about complexifications.) | |
| Nov 9, 2014 at 15:38 | history | answered | Peter | CC BY-SA 3.0 |