What happens to elements with powers of x above 3? Say we multiply the example vector above with itself. We would end up with a component d2x6, witch is not part of the P3R vector space, right?
Do we need a special multiplication rule to handle powers of x above 3?
I’ve worked with quaternions before, which has " special" multiplication rules by defining i j and k.
Multiplication of two vectors is not an operation defined on vector spaces. If you want that, you’re looking at either a structure known as an inner product space or an algebra over a field.
Note that the usual notion of polynomial multiplication doesn’t apply to polynomial vector spaces, nor does it agree with the definition of an inner product nor the bilinear product of an algebra.
What happens to elements with powers of x above 3? Say we multiply the example vector above with itself. We would end up with a component d2x6, witch is not part of the P3R vector space, right?
Do we need a special multiplication rule to handle powers of x above 3? I’ve worked with quaternions before, which has " special" multiplication rules by defining i j and k.
Multiplication of two vectors is not an operation defined on vector spaces. If you want that, you’re looking at either a structure known as an inner product space or an algebra over a field.
Note that the usual notion of polynomial multiplication doesn’t apply to polynomial vector spaces, nor does it agree with the definition of an inner product nor the bilinear product of an algebra.