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The geometric calculus based on Clifford algebra is a very useful tool for geometry and physics. It describes a geometric structure which is much richer than the ordinary geometry of spacetime. A Clifford manifold ($C$-space) consists not…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Matej Pavsic

This paper develops a geometric model for coupled two-state quantum systems (qubits), which is formulated using geometric (aka Clifford) algebra. It begins by showing how Euclidean spinors can be interpreted as entities in the geometric…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Timothy F. Havel , Chris J. L. Doran

We propose Geometric Clifford Algebra Networks (GCANs) for modeling dynamical systems. GCANs are based on symmetry group transformations using geometric (Clifford) algebras. We first review the quintessence of modern (plane-based) geometric…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-30 David Ruhe , Jayesh K. Gupta , Steven de Keninck , Max Welling , Johannes Brandstetter

Each vector space that is endowed with a quadratic form determines its Clifford algebra. This algebra, in turn, contains a distinguished group, known as the Lipschitz group. We show that only a quotient of this group remains meaningful in…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2024-02-02 Hans Havlicek

Perhaps the most significant, if not the most important, achievements in chemistry and physics are the Periodic Table of the Elements in Chemistry and the Standard Model of Elementary Particles in Physics. A comparable achievement in…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2020-03-17 Garret Sobczyk

The most familiar formalism for the description of geometry applicable to physics comprises operations among 4-component vectors and complex real numbers; few people realize that this formalism has indeed 32 degrees of freedom and can thus…

General Physics · Physics 2008-07-24 Jose B. Almeida

Clifford's geometric algebra has enjoyed phenomenal development over the last 60 years by mathematicians, theoretical physicists, engineers and computer scientists in robotics, artificial intelligence and data analysis, introducing a myriad…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2021-04-20 Garret Sobczyk

Geometric algebra is the natural outgrowth of the concept of a vector and the addition of vectors. After reviewing the properties of the addition of vectors, a multiplication of vectors is introduced in such a way that it encodes the famous…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2018-02-23 Sergio Ramos Ramirez , Jose Alfonso Juarez Gonzalez , Garret Sobczyk

In "A note on generalized Clifford algebras and representations" (Caenepeel, S.; Van Oystaeyen, F., Comm. Algebra 17 (1989) no. 1, 93--102.) generalized Clifford algebras were introduced via Clifford representations; these correspond to…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2009-03-27 Tim Neijens , Fred Van Oystaeyen

Generalized Clifford algebras (GCAs) and their physical applications were extensively studied for about a decade from 1967 by Alladi Ramakrishnan and his collaborators under the name of L-matrix theory. Some aspects of GCAs and their…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-05-25 R. Jagannathan

We discuss the relation between the q-number approach to quantum mechanics suggested by Dirac and the notion of "pregeometry" introduced by Wheeler. By associating the q-numbers with the elements of an algebra and regarding the primitive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. J. Bohm , P. G. Davies , B. J. Hiley

Geometric number systems, obtained by extending the real number system to include new anticommuting square roots of +1 and -1, provide a royal road to higher mathematics by largely sidestepping the tedious languages of tensor analysis and…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2017-07-21 Garret Sobczyk

Geometric Algebra and Calculus are mathematical languages encoding fundamental geometric relations that theories of physics seem to respect. We propose criteria given which statistics of expressions in geometric algebra are computable in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-16 Ross N. Greenwood

This paper explains how, following the representation of 3D crystallographic space groups in Clifford's geometric algebra, it is further possible to similarly represent the 162 so called subperiodic groups of crystallography in Clifford's…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-06-11 Eckhard Hitzer , Daisuke Ichikawa

This article provides a pedagogically oriented introduction to geometric (Clifford) calculus on pseudo-Riemannian manifolds. Unlike usual approaches to the topic, which rely on embedding the geometric algebra either within a tensor algebra…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-09-16 Joseph C. Schindler

An alternative, pedagogically simpler derivation of the allowed physical wave fronts of a propagating electromagnetic signal is presented using geometric algebra. Maxwell's equations can be expressed in a single multivector equation using…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 William M. Pezzaglia

This is a simple way rigorously to construct Grassmann, Clifford and Geometric Algebras, allowing degenerate bilinear forms, infinite dimension, using fields or certain modules (characteristic 2 with limitation) - and characterize the…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2010-11-17 Allan Cortzen

In this paper we combine methods from projective geometry, Klein's model, and Clifford algebra. We develop a Clifford algebra whose Pin group is a double cover of the group of regular projective transformations. The Clifford algebra we use…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2014-05-12 Daniel Klawitter

There are a wide variety of different vector formalisms currently utilized in engineering and physics. For example, Gibbs' three-vectors, Minkowski four-vectors, complex spinors in quantum mechanics, quaternions used to describe rigid body…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2016-04-25 James M. Chappell , Azhar Iqbal , John G. Hartnett , Derek Abbott

Real physical systems with reflective and rotational symmetries such as viruses, fullerenes and quasicrystals have recently been modeled successfully in terms of three-dimensional (affine) Coxeter groups. Motivated by this progress, we…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-07-13 Pierre-Philippe Dechant