Re: Outer product in mathematica
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- Subject: [mg51281] Re: [mg51261] Outer product in mathematica
- From: John Browne <jbrowne at swin.edu.au>
- Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 01:57:44 -0400 (EDT)
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Jonas,
The function you are looking for is Cross, not Outer.
Outer in Mathematica is more like the tensor outer product, not the
antisymmetric tensor product.
On 11/10/2004, at 3:25 PM, Jonas Sourlier wrote:
> Hi there
>
> In the lections at my University I have learnt that the outer product
> of two Vectors is defined as follows:
>
> (a) x (b) = 0
> (a, b) x (c, d) = ad - bc
> (a, b, c) x (d, e, f) = (bf - ce, cd - af, ae - bd)
>
> For two four-dimensional Vectors the outer product produces a
> six-dimensional Vector (handled as a skew-symmetric 4x4-matrix).
> The general, axiomatic definition of the outer product says that it is
>
> graduately anti-commutative: u x v = (-1)^(k+l) (v x u)
> bilinear: (u + v) x w = u x w + v x w
>
> for two vectors u, v and w with dimensions k, l, m.
>
>
> Now, my question: The outer product seems to be implemented in
> Mathematica with the function Outer. But whatever I've tried so far
> with Outer I didn't manage to get the outer product of two vectors as
> described above.
>
> Outer[Times, {a,b,c},{d,e,f}] produces the 3x3-Matrix
>
> {{a d, a e, a f}, {b d, b e, b f}, {c d, c e, c f}}
>
> How can I calculate the outer product of two vectors with Mathematica?
>
> Thank a lot for helping me!
> Jonas
>
>
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