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Questions about the branch of algebra that deals with groups.

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Presentation of the Clifford group by generators and relations?

Follow-up, many years later: In the currently (02/2020) most highly up-voted comment and the discussion below it, I claimed that the Clifford group is a projective representation of the semi-direct p …
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Presentation of the Clifford group by generators and relations?

I would claim that the "right" way to understand the Clifford group abstractly is to realize that "it is a projective representation of $\mathbb{Z}_2^{2n}\rtimes \mathrm{Sp}(\mathbb{Z}_2^{2n})$" as ex …
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