The Hodge Dual Operator
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The Hodge dual operator ∗ is one of the 3 basic operations on differential forms. (The other 2 are wedge product ∧ and exterior differentiation d.) However most treatments consider only positive-definite inner products, and there are at least 2 standard ways of generalizing this to inner products of arbitrary signature. We outline here a construction of the Hodge dual operator which works for any signature, resulting in a particular choice of signs. 1
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