The spectrum of the Dirac operator, acting on the quaternion-Kähler spin symmetric space Gr2(Cm+2), is explicitly computed by harmonic analysis methods: in particular “branching rules” for irreducible representations of the Lie group SU(m+2) and its subgroup S(U(m)×U(2)), are given.

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