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Isometries and Automorphisms of the Spaces of Spinors

F. Javier HERVÉS and José M. ISIDRO
Facultad de Matemáticas
Universidad de Santiago
15706 Santiago de Compostela Spain

Received: July 12, 1990
Revised: December 27, 1991
ABSTRACT

The relationships between the JB*-triple structure of a complex spin factor S and the structure of the Hilbert space H associated to S are discussed. Every surjective linear isometry L  of S can be uniquely represented in the form L(x)= mU(x)  for some conjugation commuting unitary operator U  on H and some m  (- C  , |m|= 1  . Automorphisms of S are characterized as those linear maps (continuity not assumed) that preserve minimal tripotents in S and the orthogonality relations among them.

2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 32M15, 47C10, 46G20.