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- From: kullmann@urz.unibas.ch (Peter Kullmann)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: wanted: diff. criterium for pureness of tensors.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.115730.42655@urz.unibas.ch>
- Date: 11 Jan 93 11:57:30 MET
- Organization: University of Basel, Switzerland
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- Is there a differentiable criterium for the pureness *) of tensors in the
- outer tensor algebra over a real vector space? I.e. a function
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- f:Alt(k,V) ---> R differentiable
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- such that if s \in Alt(k,V): f(s) = 0 iff s is pure.
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- This has of course to do with Grassmanians, and what I actually want is to
- have Grassmann (n,k) as a level surface in Alt(k,R^n). I doubt it very much
- that this is possible, so an argument for the contrary would be welcomed as
- well:-).
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- *) I'm not sure about the term pure = rein in German. It means: a tensor s
- \in Alt(k,V) is pure iff it is the product: v1 wedge v2 wedge ... wedge vk,
- where vi \in the dual of V.
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- --
- Peter
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