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Talk:Multivector
Selasa, 2024-02-06 20:21:59

referring 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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Talk:Riemann–Silberstein vector
Minggu, 2024-04-28 06:45:35

the 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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Talk:Geometric algebra/Archive 1
Selasa, 2024-10-01 01:19:48

involving 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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Talk:Pseudovector
Senin, 2026-03-30 00:12:01

the 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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Talk:Spinor/Archive 2
Senin, 2023-01-30 08:53:44

think 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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Talk:Versor (physics)
Minggu, 2025-03-02 04:00:56

another 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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Talk:Exterior algebra
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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Talk:Bivector
Senin, 2024-05-27 21:26:13

the 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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Talk:Geometric algebra/Archive 3
Senin, 2026-03-02 04:04:00

an 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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Talk:Applications of dual quaternions to 2D geometry
Senin, 2024-01-15 06:16:35

in 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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Talk:Exterior algebra/Archive 2
Sabtu, 2023-03-25 22:03:02

occurs 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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Talk:Geometric algebra/Archive 4
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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Talk:Dual quaternion
Rabu, 2024-05-22 03:44:50

theory 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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Talk:Slater determinant
Selasa, 2025-11-25 10:47:49

the 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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Talk:Bivector/Archive 2
Sabtu, 2015-01-10 07:25:03

direct/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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Talk:Outer product
Sabtu, 2025-11-15 07:11:41

different 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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Talk:Möbius transformation
Jumat, 2024-12-13 16:09:09

if 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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Talk:Outermorphism
Rabu, 2024-02-07 12:58:58

derivation 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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Talk:Vector (mathematics and physics)
Senin, 2025-07-07 04:28:02

Euclidean 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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Talk:Hermitian matrix
Sabtu, 2026-08-15 23:07:22

interpretation, complex numbers are being used because the geometric product and multivectors are an undertaught/underused mathematical formalism, despite being arguably...

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Talk:Bivector/Archive 1
Senin, 2010-02-15 18:00:44

grade (n-1) multivectors are called pseudovectors in geometric algebra. Consistent usage requires bivector = pseudovector in 3D. Can you comment directly...

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Talk:Glossary of areas of mathematics
Jumat, 2024-07-26 04:47:13

extension 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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Talk:Geometric algebra/Archive 2
Minggu, 2014-05-18 15:39:05

And 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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Talk:Exterior algebra/Archive 3
Sabtu, 2026-04-04 20:22:40

March 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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Talk:Split-quaternion
Jumat, 2025-07-11 05:02:25

over 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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Talk:Exterior algebra/Archive 1
Senin, 2023-01-30 04:54:48

multivectors 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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Talk:Differential form/Archive 1
Selasa, 2023-01-31 21:06:58

submanifolds. 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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Talk:Quaternion
Rabu, 2026-07-08 03:46:43

about 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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Talk:Versor
Jumat, 2026-03-06 22:57:03

broader 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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Talk:Hypercomplex number
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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Talk:Hodge star operator
Sabtu, 2024-10-26 11:32:16

under 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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Talk:Algebraic structure/Archive 1
Minggu, 2016-02-21 05:50:24

linear 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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Talk:Wave function/Archive 3
Minggu, 2021-10-17 12:24:37

through 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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Talk:Maxwell's equations/Archive 4
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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Talk:Geometry/Archive 2
Sabtu, 2026-03-21 01:26:38

geometric 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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Talk:Spinor/Archive 3
Rabu, 2023-12-27 00:50:13

way 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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Talk:Pseudovector/Archive 1
Sabtu, 2025-02-08 11:25:08

terminology 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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Talk:Square/Archive 2
Rabu, 2026-05-27 00:03:35

want 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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Talk:Quaternion/Archive 2
Jumat, 2023-02-03 04:05:51

a 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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Talk:Complex spacetime
Selasa, 2024-02-13 09:16:11

vector 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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Talk:Anyon/Archive 1
Sabtu, 2026-07-18 20:17:33

s}} 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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