Suppose that is an n-permutation, and that P is its corresponding permutation matrix. Let 6=i2 be the standard basis for R. Show that P=
Given a vector space V, we can define the exterior power of V, denoted AV, as the vector space spanned by expressions of the form A^2 * A, where U V. Such expressions are sometimes called multivectors. This wedge product satisfies the following axioms:
Associativity: A^3 = A * A
Distributivity: A + u = Au + A
Anticommutivity: A = -A
Compatibility with scalar product: kA = Aku, where k R
Because of the third property, A = 0 for any vector. Because of the fourth property, we can write both sides of the equation as ku.