四重積 (ベクトル解析)
( a × b ) ⋅ ( c × d ) = ( a ⋅ c ) ( b ⋅ d ) − ( a ⋅ d ) ( b ⋅ c ) = det ( a ⋅ c a ⋅ d b ⋅ c b ⋅ d ) {\displaystyle {\begin{aligned}({\boldsymbol {a}}\times {\boldsymbol {b}})\cdot ({\boldsymbol {c}}\times {\boldsymbol {d}})&=({\boldsymbol {a}}\cdot {\boldsymbol {c}})({\boldsymbol {b}}\cdot {\boldsymbol {d}})-({\boldsymbol {a}}\cdot {\boldsymbol {d}})({\boldsymbol {b}}\cdot {\boldsymbol {c}})\\&=\det {\begin{pmatrix}{\boldsymbol {a}}\cdot {\boldsymbol {c}}&{\boldsymbol {a}}\cdot {\boldsymbol {d}}\\{\boldsymbol {b}}\cdot {\boldsymbol {c}}&{\boldsymbol {b}}\cdot {\boldsymbol {d}}\end{pmatrix}}\end{aligned}}}
が成り立つ。