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by knappa 3419 days ago
Unless you mean something different from the usual multilinear algebra meaning of "exterior algebra", xy^yz is zero. (It contains two y's.) I think that you must actually mean Clifford algebras. (But there are also signs when in characteristic ≠ 2.)
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Yeah, I do mean Clifford algebras. Thanks for the catch. I'll have to study up on the distinction between "outer products" in Clifford algebras and exterior algebras.
They are isomorphic as vector spaces (again with characteristic != 2), but their products are not preserved by the isomorphism (unless the Clifford algebra is trivial).