The inverse of a multivector: beyond the threshold p+q=5

DOI10.1007/S00006-018-0885-4zbMATH Open1394.15004arXiv1712.05204OpenAlexW2810983553MaRDI QIDQ1668604FDOQ1668604

Authors: A. Dargys, Arturas Acus 

Publication date: 29 August 2018

Published in: Advances in Applied Clifford Algebras (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The algorithm of finding inverse multivector (MV) numerically and symbolically is of paramount importance in the applied Clifford geometric algebra (GA) $C{l}_{p,q}$. The first general MV inversion algorithm was based on matrix representation of MV. The complexity of calculations and size of the answer in a symbolic form grow exponentially with the GA dimension $n=p+q$. The breakthrough occurred when D. Lundholm and then P. Dadbeh found compact inverse formulas up to dimension $nle5$. The formulas were constructed in a form of Clifford product of initial MV and its carefully chosen grade-negation counterparts. In this report we show that the grade-negation self-product method can be extended beyond $n=5$ threshold if, in addition, properly constructed linear combinations of such MV products are used. In particular, we present compact explicit MV inverse formulas for algebras of vector space dimension $n=6$ and show that they embrace all lower dimensional cases as well. For readers convenience, we have also given various MV formulas in a form of grade negations when $nle5$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.05204

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zbMATH Keywords

Clifford algebrageometric algebracomputer-aided theoryinverse multivector

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Eigenvalues, singular values, and eigenvectors (15A18) Clifford algebras, spinors (15A66)

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