Hello, a similar question was asked previously, but I am unable to use multiple symbolic variables with the answer. What I would like to do is the following:
sage: Q = QuadraticForm(ZZ,2,[1,1,1])
sage: Cl.<x,y> = CliffordAlgebra(Q)
Then, I would like to define two symbolic a and b variables
sage: a*x+b*y
such that this output is produced:
sage: (a*x+b*y)*(a*x+b*y)
a^2+b^2
How do I declare a and b so that this is possible?
I have tried a, b = var('a b') but a*x gives an error
sage: a*x
TypeError: unsupported operand parent(s) for *: 'Symbolic Ring' and 'The Clifford algebra of the Quadratic form in 2 variables over Integer Ring with coefficients:
[ 1 1 ]
[ * 1 ]'
I have also tried R.<a> = PolynomialRing(ZZ) and it works for 1 variable. But if I also tried to add b, it fails
sage: R.<a,b> = PolynomialRing(ZZ)
sage: a*x+b*y
TypeError: unsupported operand parent(s) for +: 'Multivariate Polynomial Ring in a, b over Integer Ring' and 'The Clifford algebra of the Quadratic form in 2 variables over Integer Ring with coefficients:
[ 1 1 ]
[ * 1 ]'
