Definite Form
The pin group of a definite form maps onto the orthogonal group, and each component is simply connected: it double covers the orthogonal group. The pin groups for a positive definite quadratic form Q and for its negative −Q are not isomorphic, but the orthogonal groups are.
In terms of the standard forms, O(n, 0) = O(0,n), but Pin(n, 0) and Pin(0, n) are not isomorphic. Using the "+" sign convention for Clifford algebras (where ), one writes
and these both map onto O(n) = O(n, 0) = O(0, n).
By contrast, we have the natural isomorphism Spin(n, 0) ≅ Spin(0, n) and they are both the (unique) double cover of the special orthogonal group SO(n), which is the (unique) universal cover for n ≥ 3.
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