[seqfan] Re: Spinors and Bott periodicity

Neil Sloane njasloane at gmail.com
Thu Jan 30 02:43:33 CET 2014


A034583 and A034584 seem correct, I checked two books


On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 8:23 PM, Neil Sloane <njasloane at gmail.com> wrote:

> Which suggests A034584, except the two sequences don't seem to agree
>
> I will double-check A034584
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> On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 6:11 PM, William Keith <william.keith at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> After 1,2,4,4,4,4,8,8, every consecutive eight terms are 16 times the
>> previous eight terms, so the sequence would begin
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>> 1,2,4,4,4,4,8,8,  16,32,64,64,64,64,128,128,
>> 256,512,1024,1024,1024,1024,2048,2048, et cetera.
>>
>> If I understood the lecture correctly the sequence is "a(n) is the
>> dimension of the space of spinors in n-dimensional real space."
>>
>> William Keith
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