We define and study the ternary analogues of Clifford algebras. It is proved that the ternary Clifford algebra with N generators is isomorphic to the subalgebra of the elements of grade zero of the ternary Clifford algebra with N+1 generators. In the case N = 3 the ternary commutator of cubic matrices induced by the ternary commutator of the elements of grade zero is derived. We apply the terna...

In the traditional approaches to Clifford algebras, the Clifford product is evaluated by recursive application of the product of a one-vector (span of the generators) on homogeneous i.e. sums of decomposable (Graßmann), multi-vectors and later extended by bilinearity. The Hestenesian ’dot’ product, extending the one-vector scalar product, is even worse having exceptions for scalars and the need...

We study reversible quantum cellular automata with the restriction that these are also Clifford operations. This means that tensor products of Pauli operators (or discrete Weyl operators) are mapped to tensor products of Pauli operators. Therefore Clifford quantum cellular automata are induced by symplectic cellular automata in phase space. We characterize these symplectic cellular automata and...

The representation of geometric objects and their transformation are the two key aspects in computer graphics applications. Traditionally, computer-intensive matrix calculations are involved in modeling and rendering three-dimensional (3D) scenery. Geometric algebra (aka Clifford algebra) is attracting attention as a natural way to model geometric facts and as a powerful analytical tool for sym...

One particular approach to quantum groups (matrix pseudo groups) provides the Manin quantum plane. Assuming an appropriate set of non-commuting variables spanning linearly a representation space one is able to show that the endomorphisms on that space preserving the non-commutative structure constitute a quantum group. The noncommutativity of these variables provide an example of non-commutativ...

Neural computation in Clifford algebras, which include familiar complex numbers and quaternions as special cases, has recently become an active research field. As always, neurons are the atoms of computation. The paper provides a general notion for the Hessian matrix of Clifford neurons of an arbitrary algebra. This new result on the dynamics of Clifford neurons then allows the computation of o...

We study the notion of Γ-graded commutative algebra for an arbitrary abelian group Γ. The main examples are the Clifford algebras already treated in [2]. We prove that the Clifford algebras are the only simple finitedimensional associative graded commutative algebras over R or C. Our approach also leads to non-associative graded commutative algebras extending the Clifford algebras.

Clifford algebras are naturally associated with quadratic forms. These algebras are Z2 -graded by construction. However, only a Zn -gradation induced by a choice of a basis, or even better, by a Chevalley vector space isomorphism Cl(V ) ↔ ∧ V and an ordering, guarantees a multivector decomposition into scalars, vectors, tensors, and so on, mandatory in physics. We show that the Chevalley isomor...

Euclidean Clifford analysis is a higher dimensional function theory offering a refinement of classical harmonic analysis. The theory is centred around the concept of monogenic functions, which constitute the kernel of a first order vector valued, rotation invariant, differential operator ∂ called the Dirac operator, which factorizes the Laplacian. More recently, Hermitean Clifford analysis has ...

A homogeneous space G/H is said to have a compact Clifford-Klein form if there exists a discrete subgroup Γ of G that acts properly discontinuously on G/H, such that the quotient space Γ\G/H is compact. When n is even, we find every closed, connected subgroup H of G = SO(2, n), such that G/H has a compact Clifford-Klein form, but our classification is not quite complete when n is odd. The work ...