The decomposition of the spinor bundle of the spin Grassmann manifolds into irreducible representations of is presented. A universal construction is developed and the general statement is proven for , , and for all . The decomposition is used to discuss properties of the spectrum and the eigenspaces of the Dirac operator.
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