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On the Spinor Representation of Surfaces in Euclidean 3-Space

Thomas Friedrich
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Abstract

The aim of the present paper is to clarify the relationship between immersions of surfaces and solutions of the inhomogeneous Dirac equation. The main idea leading to the description of a surface M^2 by a spinor field is the observation that the restriction to M^2 of any parallel spinor phi on R^3 is (with respect to the inner geometry of M^2) a non-trivial spinor field on M^2 of constant length which is a solution of the inhomogeneous Dirac equation and vice versa.

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Thomas Friedrich. 1997-12-30. On the Spinor Representation of Surfaces in Euclidean 3-Space. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0393-0440(98)00018-7

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