Download or read book Clifford Algebras An Introduction written by D. J. H. Garling and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-23 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A straightforward introduction to Clifford algebras, providing the necessary background material and many applications in mathematics and physics.
Download or read book An Introduction to Clifford Algebras and Spinors written by Jayme Vaz Jr. and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is unique compared to the existing literature. It is very didactical and accessible to both students and researchers, without neglecting the formal character and the deep algebraic completeness of the topic along with its physical applications.
Download or read book Clifford Algebras and Lie Theory written by Eckhard Meinrenken and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-02-28 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph provides an introduction to the theory of Clifford algebras, with an emphasis on its connections with the theory of Lie groups and Lie algebras. The book starts with a detailed presentation of the main results on symmetric bilinear forms and Clifford algebras. It develops the spin groups and the spin representation, culminating in Cartan’s famous triality automorphism for the group Spin(8). The discussion of enveloping algebras includes a presentation of Petracci’s proof of the Poincaré–Birkhoff–Witt theorem. This is followed by discussions of Weil algebras, Chern--Weil theory, the quantum Weil algebra, and the cubic Dirac operator. The applications to Lie theory include Duflo’s theorem for the case of quadratic Lie algebras, multiplets of representations, and Dirac induction. The last part of the book is an account of Kostant’s structure theory of the Clifford algebra over a semisimple Lie algebra. It describes his “Clifford algebra analogue” of the Hopf–Koszul–Samelson theorem, and explains his fascinating conjecture relating the Harish-Chandra projection for Clifford algebras to the principal sl(2) subalgebra. Aside from these beautiful applications, the book will serve as a convenient and up-to-date reference for background material from Clifford theory, relevant for students and researchers in mathematics and physics.
Download or read book Geometric Computing with Clifford Algebras written by Gerald Sommer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph-like anthology introduces the concepts and framework of Clifford algebra. It provides a rich source of examples of how to work with this formalism. Clifford or geometric algebra shows strong unifying aspects and turned out in the 1960s to be a most adequate formalism for describing different geometry-related algebraic systems as specializations of one "mother algebra" in various subfields of physics and engineering. Recent work shows that Clifford algebra provides a universal and powerful algebraic framework for an elegant and coherent representation of various problems occurring in computer science, signal processing, neural computing, image processing, pattern recognition, computer vision, and robotics.
Download or read book Quaternions Clifford Algebras and Relativistic Physics written by Patrick R. Girard and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-06-25 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The use of Clifford algebras in mathematical physics and engineering has grown rapidly in recent years. Whereas other developments have privileged a geometric approach, this book uses an algebraic approach that can be introduced as a tensor product of quaternion algebras and provides a unified calculus for much of physics. It proposes a pedagogical introduction to this new calculus, based on quaternions, with applications mainly in special relativity, classical electromagnetism, and general relativity.
Download or read book Clifford geometric Algebras with Applications to Physics Mathematics and Engineering written by William Eric Baylis and published by Boston : Birkhäuser. This book was released on 1996 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a comprehensive approach to the theoretical, applied and symbolic computational aspects of the subject. Excellent for self-study, leading experts in the field have written on the of topics mentioned above, using an easy approach with efficient geometric language for non-specialists.
Download or read book Introduction to Clifford Analysis written by Johan Ceballos and published by Nova Science Publishers. This book was released on 2020 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book pursues to exhibit how we can construct a Clifford type algebra from the classical one. The basic idea of these lecture notes is to show how to calculate fundamental solutions to either first-order differential operators of the form D=∑_(i=0)^n▒〖e_i δ_i〗or second-order elliptic differential operators ̄D D, both with constant coefficients or combinations of this kind of operators. After considering in detail how to find the fundamental solution we study the problem of integral representations in a classical Clifford algebra and in a dependent-parameter Clifford algebra which generalizes the classical one. We also propose a basic method to extend the order of the operator, for instance D^n,n∈N and how to produce integral representations for higher order operators and mixtures of them. Although the Clifford algebras have produced many applications concerning boundary value problems, initial value problems, mathematical physics, quantum chemistry, among others; in this book we do not discuss these topics as they are better discussed in other courses. Researchers and practitioners will find this book very useful as a source book.The reader is expected to have basic knowledge of partial differential equations and complex analysis. When planning and writing these lecture notes, we had in mind that they would be used as a resource by mathematics students interested in understanding how we can combine partial differential equations and Clifford analysis to find integral representations. This in turn would allow them to solve boundary value problems and initial value problems. To this end, proofs have been described in rigorous detail and we have included numerous worked examples. On the other hand, exercises have not been included.
Download or read book A New Approach to Differential Geometry using Clifford s Geometric Algebra written by John Snygg and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-12-09 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Differential geometry is the study of the curvature and calculus of curves and surfaces. A New Approach to Differential Geometry using Clifford's Geometric Algebra simplifies the discussion to an accessible level of differential geometry by introducing Clifford algebra. This presentation is relevant because Clifford algebra is an effective tool for dealing with the rotations intrinsic to the study of curved space. Complete with chapter-by-chapter exercises, an overview of general relativity, and brief biographies of historical figures, this comprehensive textbook presents a valuable introduction to differential geometry. It will serve as a useful resource for upper-level undergraduates, beginning-level graduate students, and researchers in the algebra and physics communities.
Download or read book Clifford Algebra to Geometric Calculus written by David Hestenes and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1984 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Matrix algebra has been called "the arithmetic of higher mathematics" [Be]. We think the basis for a better arithmetic has long been available, but its versatility has hardly been appreciated, and it has not yet been integrated into the mainstream of mathematics. We refer to the system commonly called 'Clifford Algebra', though we prefer the name 'Geometric Algebra' suggested by Clifford himself. Many distinct algebraic systems have been adapted or developed to express geometric relations and describe geometric structures. Especially notable are those algebras which have been used for this purpose in physics, in particular, the system of complex numbers, the quaternions, matrix algebra, vector, tensor and spinor algebras and the algebra of differential forms. Each of these geometric algebras has some significant advantage over the others in certain applications, so no one of them provides an adequate algebraic structure for all purposes of geometry and physics. At the same time, the algebras overlap considerably, so they provide several different mathematical representations for individual geometrical or physical ideas.
Download or read book Clifford Algebras and Spinors written by Pertti Lounesto and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-05-03 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second edition of a popular work offering a unique introduction to Clifford algebras and spinors. The beginning chapters could be read by undergraduates; vectors, complex numbers and quaternions are introduced with an eye on Clifford algebras. The next chapters will also interest physicists, and include treatments of the quantum mechanics of the electron, electromagnetism and special relativity with a flavour of Clifford algebras. This edition has three new chapters, including material on conformal invariance and a history of Clifford algebras.
Download or read book Quadratic Mappings and Clifford Algebras written by Jacques Helmstetter and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-05-24 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After general properties of quadratic mappings over rings, the authors more intensely study quadratic forms, and especially their Clifford algebras. To this purpose they review the required part of commutative algebra, and they present a significant part of the theory of graded Azumaya algebras. Interior multiplications and deformations of Clifford algebras are treated with the most efficient methods.
Download or read book Clifford Geometric Algebras written by William E. Baylis and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is an outgrowth of the 1995 Summer School on Theoretical Physics of the Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP), held in Banff, Alberta, in the Canadian Rockies, from July 30 to August 12,1995. The chapters, based on lectures given at the School, are designed to be tutorial in nature, and many include exercises to assist the learning process. Most lecturers gave three or four fifty-minute lectures aimed at relative novices in the field. More emphasis is therefore placed on pedagogy and establishing comprehension than on erudition and superior scholarship. Of course, new and exciting results are presented in applications of Clifford algebras, but in a coherent and user-friendly way to the nonspecialist. The subject area of the volume is Clifford algebra and its applications. Through the geometric language of the Clifford-algebra approach, many concepts in physics are clarified, united, and extended in new and sometimes surprising directions. In particular, the approach eliminates the formal gaps that traditionally separate clas sical, quantum, and relativistic physics. It thereby makes the study of physics more efficient and the research more penetrating, and it suggests resolutions to a major physics problem of the twentieth century, namely how to unite quantum theory and gravity. The term "geometric algebra" was used by Clifford himself, and David Hestenes has suggested its use in order to emphasize its wide applicability, and b& cause the developments by Clifford were themselves based heavily on previous work by Grassmann, Hamilton, Rodrigues, Gauss, and others.
Download or read book Clifford Algebras and the Classical Groups written by Ian R. Porteous and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-10-05 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Clifford algebras of real quadratic forms and their complexifications are studied here in detail, and those parts which are immediately relevant to theoretical physics are seen in the proper broad context. Central to the work is the classification of the conjugation and reversion anti-involutions that arise naturally in the theory. It is of interest that all the classical groups play essential roles in this classification. Other features include detailed sections on conformal groups, the eight-dimensional non-associative Cayley algebra, its automorphism group, the exceptional Lie group G(subscript 2), and the triality automorphism of Spin 8. The book is designed to be suitable for the last year of an undergraduate course or the first year of a postgraduate course.
Download or read book Clifford Algebras written by Rafal Ablamowicz and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 635 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The invited papers in this volume provide a detailed examination of Clifford algebras and their significance to analysis, geometry, mathematical structures, physics, and applications in engineering. While the papers collected in this volume require that the reader possess a solid knowledge of appropriate background material, they lead to the most current research topics. With its wide range of topics, well-established contributors, and excellent references and index, this book will appeal to graduate students and researchers.
Download or read book Introduction to Octonion and Other Non Associative Algebras in Physics written by Susumu Okubo and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-08-03 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, the author aims to familiarize researchers and graduate students in both physics and mathematics with the application of non-associative algebras in physics.Topics covered by the author range from algebras of observables in quantum mechanics, angular momentum and octonions, division algebra, triple-linear products and YangSHBaxter equations. The author also covers non-associative gauge theoretic reformulation of Einstein's general relativity theory and so on. Much of the material found in this book is not available in other standard works.
Download or read book Quadratic Algebras Clifford Algebras and Arithmetic Witt Groups written by Alexander J. Hahn and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quadratic Algebras, Clifford Algebras, and Arithmetic Forms introduces mathematicians to the large and dynamic area of algebras and forms over commutative rings. The book begins very elementary and progresses gradually in its degree of difficulty. Topics include the connection between quadratic algebras, Clifford algebras and quadratic forms, Brauer groups, the matrix theory of Clifford algebras over fields, Witt groups of quadratic and symmetric bilinear forms. Some of the new results included by the author concern the representation of Clifford algebras, the structure of Arf algebra in the free case, connections between the group of isomorphic classes of finitely generated projectives of rank one and arithmetic results about the quadratic Witt group.
Download or read book Clifford Algebra in Mathematics and Physics written by Stefano Spezia and published by Arcler Press. This book was released on 2017-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Clifford or geometric algebra (GA) is an algebra generated by a vector space with a bilinear form with some special properties. GA is more efficient than the matrix algebra because of the fact that the components of geometric algebra can be expressed without introducing any arbitrary basis and turned out to be a superior mathematical tool which provides a common mathematical language that aids a unified approach and understanding in topics across mathematics, physics and engineering. For example, complex variables, vectors, quaternions, matrix theory, differential forms, tensor calculus, spinors and twistors, are all subsumed under a common approach.The book begins with a brief historical introduction, followed by a description of the mathematical formalism of Clifford algebra. In particular, definitions, axiom and examples applied to two-dimensional and three-dimensional spaces have been presented. Section 1 gives an overview of the application of GA in Physics, focusing on geometric algebra pictures of both the plane wave solution of the Maxwell equation and special relativity, a toy model of SU(3) symmetry, and some preliminary thoughts about a possible geometric meaning of quantum mechanics. In particular, it is cleared that the internal spin structure of the particle is hidden in both Schrödinger and Dirac equations showing that the classical mechanics combined with zero-point field leads to quantum mechanics. Section 2 discusses the problem of quantization in quantum theory, a natural algebraic alternative definition of time, a coordinate-free formulation of General Relativity, a more unified and systematic description of flux compactifications and of supergravity and string compactifications in general. Finally, the last Section 3 begins with the study of the association of a quaternion algebra to the set of generalized Fibonacci quaternions by using the construction of Clifford algebras and concludes with the study of an important branch of modern analysis: The Clifford analysis.
