Sparse representations of Clifford and tensor algebras in maxima

DOI10.1007/S00006-016-0682-XMaRDI QIDQ2361064zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Dimiter Prodanov, Viktor T. Toth

Publication date 29 June 2017

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.06967

zbMATH Keywords

Clifford algebrascomputer algebrageometric algebraMaxwell equationstensor calculus

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quadratic spaces; Clifford algebras (11E88) Clifford algebras, spinors (15A66) Multilinear algebra, tensor calculus (15A69) Differential geometric aspects in vector and tensor analysis (53A45) Electromagnetic theory (general) (78A25) Geometric methods (including applications of algebraic geometry) applied to coding theory (94B27)

Abstract: Clifford algebras have broad applications in science and engineering. The use of Clifford algebras can be further promoted in these fields by availability of computational tools that automate tedious routine calculations. We offer an extensive demonstration of the applications of Clifford algebras in electromagnetism using the geometric algebra G3 = Cl(3,0) as a computational model in the Maxima computer algebra system. We compare the geometric algebra-based approach with conventional symbolic tensor calculations supported by Maxima, based on the itensor package. The Clifford algebra functionality of Maxima is distributed as two new packages called clifford - for basic simplification of Clifford products, outer products, scalar products and inverses; and cliffordan - for applications of geometric calculus.

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Describes a project that uses

Uses Software

• CLIFFORD
• Maxima
• BIGEBRA
• ITENSOR

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