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Inverse of multivector: Beyond p+q=5 threshold

Mathematical Physics 2018-03-15 v2 math.MP

Abstract

The algorithm of finding inverse multivector (MV) numerically and symbolically is of paramount importance in the applied Clifford geometric algebra (GA) Clp,qCl_{p,q}. The first general MV inversion algorithm was based on matrix representation of MV. The complexity of calculations and size of the answer in a symbolic form grow exponentially with the GA dimension n=p+qn=p+q. The breakthrough occurred when D. Lundholm and then P. Dadbeh found compact inverse formulas up to dimension n5n\le5. The formulas were constructed in a form of Clifford product of initial MV and its carefully chosen grade-negation counterparts. In this report we show that the grade-negation self-product method can be extended beyond n=5n=5 threshold if, in addition, properly constructed linear combinations of such MV products are used. In particular, we present compact explicit MV inverse formulas for algebras of vector space dimension n=6n=6 and show that they embrace all lower dimensional cases as well. For readers convenience, we have also given various MV formulas in a form of grade negations when n5n\le5.

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@article{arxiv.1712.05204,
  title  = {Inverse of multivector: Beyond p+q=5 threshold},
  author = {A. Acus and A. Dargys},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.05204},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

17 pages, new important conjecture was added