
There are two well-known ways of describing elements of the rotation group SO$(m)$. First, according to the Cartan-Dieudonn\'e theorem, every rotation matrix can be written as an even number of reflections. And second, they can also be expressed as the exponential of some anti-symmetric matrix. In this paper, we study similar descriptions of a group of rotations SO${}_0$ in the superspace setting. This group can be seen as the action of the functor of points of the orthosymplectic supergroup OSp$(m|2n)$ on a Grassmann algebra. While still being connected, the group SO${}_0$ is thus no longer compact. As a consequence, it cannot be fully described by just one action of the exponential map on its Lie algebra. Instead, we obtain an Iwasawa-type decomposition for this group in terms of three exponentials acting on three direct summands of the corresponding Lie algebra of supermatrices. At the same time, SO${}_0$ strictly contains the group generated by super-vector reflections. Therefore, its Lie algebra is isomorphic to a certain extension of the algebra of superbivectors. This means that the Spin group in this setting has to be seen as the group generated by the exponentials of the so-called extended superbivectors in order to cover SO${}_0$. We also study the actions of this Spin group on supervectors and provide a proper subset of it that is a double cover of SO${}_0$. Finally, we show that every fractional Fourier transform in n bosonic dimensions can be seen as an element of this spin group.
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bivectors, spin groups, Lie algebras of Lie groups, Superspace, Mathematics and Statistics, Functions of hypercomplex variables and generalized variables, 30G35, 22E60, Bivectors, Symplectic groups, symplectic groups, Spin groups, INTEGRATION, Mathematics - Group Theory, Clifford analysis, superspace, Mathematical Physics
bivectors, spin groups, Lie algebras of Lie groups, Superspace, Mathematics and Statistics, Functions of hypercomplex variables and generalized variables, 30G35, 22E60, Bivectors, Symplectic groups, symplectic groups, Spin groups, INTEGRATION, Mathematics - Group Theory, Clifford analysis, superspace, Mathematical Physics
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