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Re: Outer product in mathematica

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• Subject: [mg51352] Re: Outer product in mathematica
• From: Albert Reiner <areiner at tph.tuwien.ac.at>
• Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 02:45:48 -0400 (EDT)
• Organization: Norwegian university of science and technology
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[Jonas Sourlier <aeroswiss at gmx.net>, Thu, 14 Oct 2004 10:51:31 +0000 (UTC)]:
> okay, thanks alot. Could it be that "outer product" in English means
> only the tensor outer product, meanwhile in German "äusseres Produkt"
> has more the sense of the antisymmetric tensor product
> ("wedge-product")? Our professor talked only about the second one...

I have often heard the term "direktes Produkt" for what Outer does.

Albert.

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