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• CommentRowNumber1.
• CommentAuthorGuest
• CommentTimeOct 14th 2009
Created stub for Spin group. Made a mess of explaining why it is so named.

-David Roberts
• CommentRowNumber2.
• CommentAuthorUrs
• CommentTimeOct 13th 2011

I have added a list of exceptional isomorphisms in low dimensions to Spin group

I am really after what happens for $Spin(6,2)$. But that seems to be a longer story…

• CommentRowNumber3.
• CommentAuthorUrs
• CommentTimeNov 20th 2014

I have finally added the actual definition via Clifford algebra at spin group. Also at spin representation.

• CommentRowNumber4.
• CommentAuthorUrs
• CommentTimeDec 8th 2018
• (edited Dec 8th 2018)

• Martin Čadek and Jiří Vanžura, On $Sp(2)$ and $Sp(2) \cdot Sp(1)$-structures in 8-dimensional vector bundles, Publicacions Matemàtiques Vol. 41, No. 2 (1997), pp. 383-401 (jstor:43737249)
for discussion of the exceptional isomorphism $Spin(5) \simeq Sp(2)$ via triality