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Why author did not used geometric algebra?

The curl(u) operator, which confines vectors and vector fields to R^3, is an outer product of nabla with u [1, page 9] in geometric algebra. And as such it is defined for arbitrary number of dimensions, not just 2, 3 and 7.

[1] https://hal.sorbonne-universite.fr/hal-00920544v2/document

Matrices (and more) can also be described in GA, because they are linear operators.



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