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Talk:Multivector
Selasa, 2024-02-06 20:21:59referring to a multivector of a given degree p as a p-vector. Thus I've merged the articles under "Multivector", following Cartan: a multivector is an element...
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Minggu, 2024-04-28 06:45:35the unit pseudoscalar (as would be suggested by the use of the term multivector), its complexification (the Dirac algebra) with i being the imaginary...
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Selasa, 2024-10-01 01:19:48involving any kind of multivector (e.g. a 2-blade by a 3-blade, or a mixed-grade multivector by a 2-vector, or a mixed-grade multivector by another). Paolo...
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Senin, 2026-03-30 00:12:01the transformation rule for (n-1)-multivectors under general change of basis is different (he discusses multivectors starting p. 23). Weinreich calls pseudovectors...
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Senin, 2023-01-30 08:53:44think of M as a bilinear operator, and ψ as "half a vector" (or half a multivector) -- so it and its twin ψ~ are just the passive objects being operated...
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Minggu, 2025-03-02 04:00:56another vector A Rotor (mathematics) or an improper rotation, a type of multivector in geometric algebra The second context (generic linear vector spaces...
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Jumat, 2026-04-17 22:50:37(which I think most mathematicians would tend to call a k-vector or multivector, or just k-form in the more specific context of the exterior algebra...
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Senin, 2024-05-27 21:26:13the original language gave rise to some authors using this term for a multivector, in particular a 2-vector. A discussion of the English vs Continental...
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Senin, 2026-03-02 04:04:00an even multivector times an even multivector gives an even multivector, an even multivector times an odd multivector gives an odd multivector, and an...
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Senin, 2024-01-15 06:16:35in a Geometric Algebra style (meaning avoiding too much discussion of multivectors and exterior products). The idea is that once you "accept" that quaternions...
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Sabtu, 2023-03-25 22:03:02occurs in Multivector, which hapazardly switches between the terms without indicating their equivalence, or even defining a k-multivector. If its use...
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Rabu, 2025-11-26 19:46:40) {\displaystyle {\mathcal {G}}(p,q)} , yields the GA definition, a multivector ψ {\displaystyle \psi } in G ( p , q ) {\displaystyle {\mathcal {G}}(p...
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Rabu, 2024-05-22 03:44:50theory that the construction of dual quaternions yields a dual unit multivector that commutes with the quaternion unit multi vectors---they are constructed...
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Selasa, 2025-11-25 10:47:49the subspace as you do for grassman algebras. This is also what is a multivector field . Therefore all this, although may be interesting, is not relevant...
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Sabtu, 2015-01-10 07:25:03direct/informative form. For example, the concept that generalises vectors is multivector, not bivector. A list of vague properties is given in the first paragraph...
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Sabtu, 2025-11-15 07:11:41different in 2004, qhen you wrote your comment). An outer product returns a matrix. An exterior product creates a multivector. Paolo.dL 13:07, 19 May 2007 (UTC)...
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Jumat, 2024-12-13 16:09:09if you take the domain to be vector-valued and the coefficients to be multivector-valued ("Clifford numbers"). Ahlfors himself wrote a few papers about...
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Rabu, 2024-02-07 12:58:58derivation I showed), but you still need a rule to know how to deal with multivectors of mixed grade and such. Teply (talk) 22:23, 26 May 2013 (UTC) Yes, once...
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Senin, 2025-07-07 04:28:02Euclidean vector. By the way, when editing the item p-vector, it appeared Multivector and Exterior algebra deserve to be merged. As I am not willing to do...
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Sabtu, 2026-08-15 23:07:22interpretation, complex numbers are being used because the geometric product and multivectors are an undertaught/underused mathematical formalism, despite being arguably...
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Senin, 2010-02-15 18:00:44grade (n-1) multivectors are called pseudovectors in geometric algebra. Consistent usage requires bivector = pseudovector in 3D. Can you comment directly...
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Jumat, 2024-07-26 04:47:13extension of linear algebra building upon concepts of p-vectors and multivectors with Grassmann algebra). In any case, the glossary at present has too...
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Minggu, 2014-05-18 15:39:05And in reply to this last comment by Maschen: something that has bothered me for ages is that in application, most multivector objects in GA are restricted...
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Sabtu, 2026-04-04 20:22:40March 2018 (UTC) The § History says Cayley and Sylvester had a theory of multivectors. There is no reference to them. Does someone know a source for this assertion...
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Jumat, 2025-07-11 05:02:25over the contributions for each pair of grades k and l of the general multivectors A and B, the contributions being as follows: for the contractive product...
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Senin, 2023-01-30 04:54:48multivectors in N-dimensional spaces, I moved the relevant discussion in Talk:Geometric algebra#Is there a convention about the order of multivector components...
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Selasa, 2023-01-31 21:06:58submanifolds. In the (more natural) cooriented situation, you need to use multivector densities. But in any case, it's not our job on Wikipedia to present...
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Rabu, 2026-07-08 03:46:43about this, both for quaternions per se and for more general kinds of multivectors. –jacobolus (t) 20:08, 17 June 2025 (UTC) Here's a source from the 1870s...
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Jumat, 2026-03-06 22:57:03broader meaning than just rotation. One paper I'm reading says versors are multivectors that "have the property that they are a geometric product of vectors...
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Selasa, 2025-06-10 04:03:05{\displaystyle \langle A\rangle _{k}} denotes the k-grade part of the multivector A. It's the only grade of the Clifford product which doesn't involve...
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Sabtu, 2024-10-26 11:32:16under transposition of the determinant), and has the nice property that multivectors made of orthonormal vectors are orthonormal. It is defined without respect...
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Minggu, 2016-02-21 05:50:24linear algebra as a species of associative algebra with matrices as the multivectors, but am not confident that doing so is correct. Only today did I read...
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Minggu, 2021-10-17 12:24:37through complex numbers as far as I know. Presumably your'e thinking of multivector-valued wavefunctions in geometric algebra which have the "spinorial"...
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Kamis, 2025-01-09 14:03:10+I\mathbf {B} } and J = ρ − J {\displaystyle J=\rho -\mathbf {J} } are multivectors and I = γ 0 γ 1 γ 2 γ 3 {\displaystyle I=\gamma _{0}\gamma _{1}\gamma...
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Sabtu, 2026-03-21 01:26:38geometric algebra I think it would be better to instead add 'vectors' and 'multivectors' to Geometry § Objects. While we're at it, the current way both projective...
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Rabu, 2023-12-27 00:50:13way Lounesto shows an analog from Dirac spinors to a set of real even multivectors (generalised rotors) in Cl1,3(R). However, note also p. 146, where Lounesto...
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Sabtu, 2025-02-08 11:25:08terminology to describe the various combinations is provided. For example, a multivector is a summation of k-fold wedge products of various k-values. A k-fold...
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Rabu, 2026-05-27 00:03:35want an arbitrary different representation, it would be better to use multivectors (cf. Hestenes (2002) doi:10.1007/978-1-4612-0089-5_1) which is significantly...
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Jumat, 2023-02-03 04:05:51a multiplicative inverse. One can use this to define, for example, a multivector differential calculus, which (I believe) can be quite usefully applied...
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Selasa, 2024-02-13 09:16:11vector spaces (we do this all the time, whether in the form of tensors, multivectors or whatever). So let's not associate 3r + 3i 3D spacetime (with its six...
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Sabtu, 2026-07-18 20:17:33s}} and s is the smallest integer with that property. For your usual multivector, you of course get spin=1 except if x is entirely scalar+pseudoscalar...
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