Re:Poor Foundations in Geometric Algebra
by elengyel on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @08:13PM
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My position is that the geometric product and antiproduct are good for one thing, performing transformations with sandwich products q ⟑ p ⟑ q̃ or q ⟇ p ⟇ q̰ and composing those transformations. Literally everything else (join, meet, contraction, expansion, projection, inner product, norm, ...) can and should be done in the exterior algebra without any geometric products.
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agree but I am still trying to grok the divine truth as to why exactly that is. What's up with the sandwich products? Why do they work? I guess it is like a change-of-basis for a matrix (PAP^{-1)) but I still don't quite see why, and why it works as a change-of-basis on multivectors, not just vectors.