Geometric calculus: A new computational tool for Riemannian geometry (Q1108587)

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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4067753
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    Geometric calculus: A new computational tool for Riemannian geometry
    scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4067753

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      Geometric calculus: A new computational tool for Riemannian geometry (English)
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      The paper illustrates geometric calculus as an efficient method for the algebraic and symbolic computation of the fundamental quantities for Riemannian geometry. Geometric calculus uses local bases of vector fields with constant inner products and their duals. As the authors state it exhibits a considerable acceleration of the computations when implemented in algebraic programming languages.
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      geometric calculus
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      symbolic computation
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      Riemannian geometry
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      algebraic programming languages
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