Clifford Algebra Applications

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Clifford Algebra Applications cover many areas in physics and engineering. -- JohnFletcher

Example use of CliffordAlgebra

For Maxwell's equations, there are several simple ways to express them using Clifford algebras. The simplest is probably the one in Cl(3,1): F = J which decomposes into two separately graded parts with F = 0 and . F = J.

I would guess the 4th dimension is only different from the others if you deliberately base your algebra on a non-positive definite space. Also, shouldn't the 2-D case have pseudoscalars rather than pseudovectors? Personally I find the whole thing much more confusing than group representations, but there are enough people who swear by it that I'm undoubtedly missing something clever.

For more discussion of this see HestenesOerstedMedalLecture p.16 and p.25-26 -- JohnFletcher

I am attempting to apply this algebra to problems in chemical engineering and would be interested to hear from anyone else who is working on applications in thermodynamics or fluid mechanics. I put some papers which I gave at at the AGAGSE conference in July 2001 on the web at http://www.ceac.aston.ac.uk/clifford/index.html -- JohnFletcher

Note on maths character: [ is nabla, UniCode u2207, the field operator.]

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