The present work is concerned with defining the cross product for symmetric,
second-order tensors. The operation presented in this paper generalizes the
classical vectorial cross product from three-dimensional Euclidean space to
symmetric tensor fields on a seven-dimensional vector space. The result of
the cross product operation expresses a nonsymmetric tensor as a sum of a
symmetric and a skew-symmetric tensor with one parameter, which satisfies the
usual properties of the vector cross product except the triple cross product
rule. The cross product formulation can be applied to pairs of symmetric
or nonsymmetric tensors where the skew-symmetric parts have the same
eigenvectors.
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