The Graf product: a Clifford structure framework on the exterior bundle (Q1668589)
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The Graf product: a Clifford structure framework on the exterior bundle (English)
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29 August 2018
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Clifford algebras have three products which are the Clifford product, the exterior product and the interior product. The key relation is that the Clifford product of two vectors is the sum of their exterior product and their interior product. The authors consider several products on the exterior algebra of differential form, defined by \textit{W. A. Poor} [Differential geometric structures. New York etc.: McGraw-Hill Book Company (1981; Zbl 0493.53027)]. They define a new Clifford product which is a reformulation of \textit{W. Graf}'s product [Ann. Inst. Henri Poincaré, Nouv. Sér., Sect. A 29, 85--108 (1978; Zbl 0397.53005)]. They verify an interesting result: under this product the exterior algebra of differential forms is also a Clifford algebra. They also study the volume element and the Hodge operator.
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exterior bundle
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Graf product
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Graf-Clifford algebra
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truncated subalgebra
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