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Geometric Product<br />

• William Kingdon Clifford (1845-79):<br />

• Combine inner and outer product to defined<br />

the geometric product AB (1878):<br />

AB := A B A B<br />

• Result is not a vector, but the sum of a<br />

scalar + bivector!<br />

• Operates on “multivectors”<br />

• Subset of the t<strong>en</strong>soralgebra<br />

• Geometric Product is invertible!<br />

Das Geometrische Produkt<br />

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