Carriers

Carrier
The carrier of a round object (a round point, dipole, circle, or sphere) is the lowest dimensional flat object (a flat point, line, or plane) that contains it. The carrier of an object $$\mathbf x$$ is denoted by $$\operatorname{car}(\mathbf x)$$, and it is calculated by simply multiplying $$\mathbf x$$ by $$\mathbf e_5$$ with the wedge product to extract the round part of $$\mathbf x$$ as a flat geometry:


 * $$\operatorname{car}(\mathbf x) = \mathbf x \wedge \mathbf e_5$$.

The following table lists the carriers for the round objects in the 5D conformal geometric algebra $$\mathcal G_{4,1}$$.

Anticarrier
The anticarrier of a round object is the carrier of its dual. The carrier of an object $$\mathbf x$$ is denoted by $$\operatorname{acr}(\mathbf x)$$, and it is calculated by


 * $$\operatorname{acr}(\mathbf x) = \mathbf x^* \wedge \mathbf e_5$$.

The anticarrier is perpendicular to the carrier, and it contains the center of the object. Thus, the meet of the carrier and anticarrier can be used to calculate the center of an object $$\mathbf x$$ as a flat point with the formula $$\operatorname{car}(\mathbf x) \vee \operatorname{acr}(\mathbf x)$$.

The following table lists the anticarriers for the round objects in the 5D conformal geometric algebra $$\mathcal G_{4,1}$$.