Mathematics · Glossary

What is exterior product?

Definition 21.3 University Mathematics — Year 3 · Chapter 21 — Differential Forms and Stokes’ Theorem

For 1,,kE\ell_1, \dots, \ell_k \in E^*, their exterior product is the kk-linear alternating form

(1k)(v1,,vk)=det(i(vj))1i,jk.(\ell_1 \wedge \dots \wedge \ell_k)(v_1, \dots, v_k) = \det\bigl(\ell_i(v_j)\bigr)_{1 \leq i, j \leq k} .

Alternation and multilinearity are those of the determinant in its columns.

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