Spinors for Beginners 15: Nilpotents, Fermions, and Maximally Isotropic Subspaces
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0:00 - Introduction
0:53 - Creation and Annihilation Operators (Bosons)
2:14 - Fermions
4:58 - Nilpotents
7:14 - Projectors
10:46 - Example in Cl(1,3)
14:18 - More Nilpotents
16:11 - Maximally Isotropic Subspaces
21:02 - Generalizing to C(n,0) and Cl(p,q)
23:57 - Example in Cl(2,0)
26:20 - Conclusion

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