Suppose you're a little creature living on a Möbius strip.
Then after "walking in a circle" (i.e. 2π radians), you will actually be upside-down.
In order to get back to where you started, you have to go around twice!
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I'm not sure if I understand that correctly. I think, I am talking about indices. 1 spinor index has two complex components. 1 space-time index corresponds to 2 spinor indices -> 4 complex components -> 8 real components 2.5/~
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but the tangent space only corresponds to real [1,1] spinors, so we are back to our 4 real components
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Ah yes! I think I know what you are referring to. I meant exactly that. I consider a Dirac/Weyl spinor as consisting of two 2-component spinors.
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