Multilinear Arcana and the Clifford algebra connexion (Q1895836)

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    Multilinear Arcana and the Clifford algebra connexion (English)
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    11 January 1996
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    This paper starts with the statement that the Grassmann algebra and the Clifford algebra are isomorphic as linear spaces. This statement is misleading. Indeed if \(V\) is a vector space over the field \(K\) equipped with an arbitrary, not necessarily non-degenerated quadratic form \(Q\), then the Clifford and Grassmann algebras are isomorphic as linear spaces only if the characteristic of \(K\) is \(\neq 2\). Supposing that \(K\) satisfy this condition, the author exhibits some aspects of the relations between Clifford and Grassmann algebras by studying certain constructions that are part of the lore of linear and multilinear algebra but which according to him are not widely known to workers in Clifford algebra. I would comment that this last statement is true only if the worker in Clifford algebra didn't study the book of \textit{D. Hestenes} and \textit{G. Sobczyk} [Clifford algebra to geometric calculus (1984; Zbl 0541.53059)].
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    Grassmann algebra
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    Clifford algebra
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