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Grassmann angle formulas and identities

General Mathematics 2020-10-08 v3

Abstract

Grassmann angles improve upon similar concepts of angle between subspaces that measure volume contraction in orthogonal projections, working for real or complex subspaces, and being more efficient when dimensions are different. Their relations with contractions, inner and exterior products of multivectors are used to obtain formulas for computing these or similar angles in terms of arbitrary bases, and various identities for the angles with certain families of subspaces. These include generalizations of the Pythagorean trigonometric identity cos2θ+sin2θ=1\cos^2\theta+\sin^2\theta=1 for high dimensional and complex subspaces, which are connected to generalized Pythagorean theorems for volumes, quantum probabilities and Clifford geometric product.

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@article{arxiv.2005.12700,
  title  = {Grassmann angle formulas and identities},
  author = {André L. G. Mandolesi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.12700},
  year   = {2020}
}

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arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1910.07327

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