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My position is that the geometric product and antiproduct are good for one thing, performing transformations with sandwich products q ⟑ p ⟑ q̃ or q ⟇ p ⟇ q̰ and composing those transformations. Literally everything else (join, meet, contraction, expansion, projection, inner product, norm, ...) can and should be done in the exterior algebra without any geometric products.


agree but I am still trying to grok the divine truth as to why exactly that is. What's up with the sandwich products? Why do they work? I guess it is like a change-of-basis for a matrix (PAP^{-1)) but I still don't quite see why, and why it works as a change-of-basis on multivectors, not just vectors.




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