We sketch the outlines of Gian Carlo Rota’s interaction with the ideas that Hermann Grassmann developed in his Ausdehnungslehre[13, 15] of 1844 and 1862, as adapted and explained by Giuseppe Peano in 1888. This leads us past what Gian Carlo variously called Grassmann-Cayley algebra and Peano spaces to the Whitney algebra of a matroid, and finally to a resolution of the question “What, really, w...

This chapter introduces global visibility computation using Grassmann Algebra. Visibility computation is a fundamental task in computer graphics, as in many other scientific domains. While it is well understood in two dimensions, this does not remain true in higher dimensional spaces. Grassmann Algebra allows to think about visibility at a high level of abstraction, and to design a framework fo...

This is a current version of a part of the book “Transformations of Grassmann spaces”. We study transformations of Grassmann spaces preserving certain geometrical constructions (related with buildings). The next part will be devoted to Grassmann spaces associated with polar spaces.

Using a combinatorial approach to studying the hyperplane sections of Grassmannians, we give two new proofs of a result of Nogin concerning the higher weights of Grassmann codes. As a consequence, we obtain a bound on the number of higher dimensional subcodes of the Grassmann code having the minimum Hamming norm. We also discuss a generalization of Grassmann codes .

When anticommuting Grassmann variables are introduced into a fluid dynamical model with irrotational velocity and no vorticity, the velocity acquires a nonvanishing curl and the resultant vorticity is described by Gaussian potentials formed from the Grassmann variables. Upon adding a further specific interaction with the Grassmann degrees of freedom, the model becomes supersymmetric.

This paper studies nonlinear deformations of the linear gauge theory of any number of spin-2 and spin-3/2 fields with general formal multiplication rules in place of standard Grassmann rules for manipulating the fields, in four spacetime dimensions. General possibilities for multiplication rules and coupling constants are simultaneously accommodated by regarding the set of fields equivalently a...

A variation to the usual formulation of Grassmann representation path integrals is presented. Time-indexed anticommuting partners are introduced for each Grassmann coherent state variable and a general method for handling the effect of these introduced Grassmann partners is also developed. These Grassmann partners carry the nilpotency and anticommutivity of the Grassmann coherent state variable...

In this paper we show that there are explicit Yang-Baxter maps with Darboux-Lax representation between Grassmann extensions of algebraic varieties. Motivated by some recent results on noncommutative extensions of Darboux transformations, we first derive a Darboux matrix associated with the Grassmann-extended derivative Nonlinear Schrödinger (DNLS) equation, and then we deduce novel endomorphism...

Surprisingly, skew derivations rather than ordinary derivations are more basic (important) object in study of the Grassmann algebras. Let Λn = K⌊x1, . . . , xn⌋ be the Grassmann algebra over a commutative ring K with 12 ∈ K, and δ be a skew K-derivation of Λn. It is proved that δ is a unique sum δ = δ ev + δ of an even and odd skew derivation. Explicit formulae are given for δ and δ via the ele...