Clifford Algebras Applications to Mathematics, Physics, and Engineering

The section devoted to engineering applications includes papers on twist representations for cycloidal curves, a description of an image space using Cayley-Klein geometry, pose estimation, andimplementations of Clifford algebra co-processor design. While the papers collected in this volume require t...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Ablamowicz, Rafal (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston, MA Birkhäuser 2004, 2004
Edition:1st ed. 2004
Series:Progress in Mathematical Physics
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • I. Clifford Analysis
  • 1. The Morera Problem in Clifford Algebras and the Heisenberg Group
  • 2. Multidimensional Inverse Scattering Associated with the Schrödinger Equation
  • 3. On Discrete Stokes and Navier—Stokes Equations in the Plane
  • 4. A Symmetric Functional Calculus for Systems of Operators of Type ?
  • 5. Poincaré Series in Clifford Analysis
  • 6. Harmonic Analysis for General First Order Differential Operators in Lipschitz Domains
  • 7. Paley—Wiener Theorems and Shannon Sampling in the Clifford Analysis Setting
  • 8. Bergman Projection in Clifford Analysis
  • 9. Quaternionic Calculus for a Class of Initial Boundary Value Problems
  • II. Geometry
  • 10. A Nahm Transform for Instantons over ALE Spaces
  • 11. Hyper-Hermitian Manifolds and Connections with Skew-Symmetric Torsion
  • 12. Casimir Elements and Bochner Identities on Riemannian Manifolds
  • 13. Eigenvalues of Dirac and Rarita—Schwinger Operators
  • 14. Differential Forms Canonically Associated to Even-Dimensional Compact Conformal Manifolds
  • 15. The Interface of Noncommutative Geometry and Physics
  • III. Mathematical Structures
  • 16. The Method of Virtual Variables and Representations of Lie Superalgebras
  • 17. Algebras Like Clifford Algebras
  • 18. Grade Free Product Formulæ from Grassmann—Hopf Gebras
  • 19. The Clifford Algebra in the Theory of Algebras, Quadratic Forms, and Classical Groups
  • 20. Lipschitz’s Methods of 1886 Applied to Symplectic Clifford Algebras
  • 21. The Group of Classes of Involutions of Graded Central Simple Algebras
  • 22. A Binary Index Notation for Clifford Algebras
  • 23. Transposition in Clifford Algebra: SU(3) from Reorientation Invariance
  • IV. Physics
  • 24. The Quantum/Classical Interface: Insights from Clifford’s (Geometric) Algebra
  • 25. Standard Quantum Spheres
  • 26.Clifford Algebras, Pure Spinors and the Physics of Fermions
  • 27. Spinor Formulations for Gravitational Energy-Momentum
  • 28. Chiral Dirac Equations
  • 29. Using Octonions to Describe Fundamental Particles
  • 30. Applications of Geometric Algebra in Electromagnetism, Quantum Theory and Gravity
  • 31. Noncommutative Physics on Lie Algebras, (?2)n Lattices and Clifford Algebras
  • 32. Dirac Operator on Quantum Homogeneous Spaces and Noncommutative Geometry
  • 33. r-Fold Multivectors and Superenergy
  • 34. The Cl7 Approach to the Standard Model
  • V. Applications in Engineering
  • 35. Implementation of a Clifford Algebra Co-Processor Design on a Field Programmable Gate Array
  • 36. Image Space
  • 37. Pose Estimation of Cycloidal Curves by using Twist Representations