# nLab spin

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## Spin geometry

spin geometry

Dynkin labelsp. orth. groupspin grouppin groupsemi-spin group
SO(2)Spin(2)Pin(2)
B1SO(3)Spin(3)Pin(3)
D2SO(4)Spin(4)Pin(4)
B2SO(5)Spin(5)Pin(5)
D3SO(6)Spin(6)
B3SO(7)Spin(7)
D4SO(8)Spin(8)SO(8)
B4SO(9)Spin(9)
D5SO(10)Spin(10)
B5SO(11)Spin(11)
D6SO(12)Spin(12)
$\vdots$$\vdots$
D8SO(16)Spin(16)SemiSpin(16)
$\vdots$$\vdots$
D16SO(32)Spin(32)SemiSpin(32)

string geometry

# Contents

## Idea

The spin of a particle in quantum mechanics/quantum field theory is its intrinsic angular momentum, but subject to the possibility that the particle may be a fermion so that that its angular momentum is not determined by the representation theory of the special orthogonal group, but of the spin group.

## Properties

### Spin-Statistics theorem

By the spin-statistics theorem, the spin of any elementary particle must be (in magnitude) half of an integer multiple of Planck's constant ($\hbar = h/2\pi$), an integer if the particle is a boson but only a half-integer if the particle is a fermion.

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