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A question in spin geometry in dimension 8

$\DeclareMathOperator\trace{trace}\DeclareMathOperator\End{End}\DeclareMathOperator\Trace{Trace}$This is to understand a very specific isomorphism in dimension $8$. In dimension $4$ for a spin$^c$ ...
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Unitary operators with the same inner product as vectors

Suppose we have a set of real unit vectors $v_1,\ldots,v_m \in \mathbb{R}^n$. We can always find a set of unitary operators $U_1,\ldots,U_m$ acting on $\mathbb{C}^N$ (for $N$ that is possibly much ...
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Linear independence of complex polynomials and a "sum of squares" conjecture

This will take me some time to explain. Let $n \geq 2$ be a fixed integer. Let $p_i(z)$, for $i = 1,\ldots,n$ be $n$ nonzero complex polynomials of degree at most $n-1$. I am interested in ...
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Is there a "natural" proof of the equality $4^2=2^4$?

This question, or rather any answer that it might receive, would probably belong to the realm of Awfully sophisticated proof for simple facts. Still, I claim that I have quite serious motivation for ...
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