The Quaternions and Bott Periodicity Are Quantum Hamiltonian Reductions
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We show that the Morita equivalences Cliff(4) ' H, Cliff(7) ' Cliff(−1), and Cliff(8) ' R arise from quantizing the Hamiltonian reductions R0|4//Spin(3), R//G2, and R0|8//Spin(7), respectively.
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