feeling extremely insulted by this. sigh i hate the maths : physics feud.
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"pseudovector" is the worst concept, this whole area requires some representation theory to sort out properly
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aw sorry i was just trying to beef for fun not beef for real. i get that physicists do things differently and it works for them and it's not that hard to translate back and forth all things considered
So what is a pseudovector? I had the idea that maybe it's a linear functional, or perhaps a row vector that you think of as representing a linear functional, but I've never been sure.
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okay this is not going to sound like it explains anything but it does. a pseudovector on a f.d. vector space V of dimension n is an element of the next-to-top exterior power wedge^{n-1}(V). this is aaaalmost an element of the dual V*; there’s a natural pairing...
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