Exterior-square double cover of SO0(3,2)

ID: exterior-square-double-cover-of-so0-3-2

Fix a volume form on a four-dimensional real symplectic vector space. Wedge pairing on its exterior square has signature . The symplectic group fixes the bivector inverse to the symplectic form. Its orthogonal complement is five-dimensional with signature after choosing the appropriate overall sign. The induced representation has kernel : identity action on the entire exterior square preserves every two-plane and thus every line, forcing a scalar transformation with square one. Its derivative is injective and both group dimensions are ten, so its image is the identity component of .

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