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An Invitation to Split Quaternionic Analysis

Complex Variables 2010-09-15 v1 Representation Theory

Abstract

Six years after William Rowan Hamilton's discovery of quaternions, in 1849 James Cockle introduced the algebra of split quaternions. (He called them ``coquaternions.'') In this paper we define regular functions on split quaternions and prove two different analogues of the Cauchy-Fueter formula for these functions. In the paper "Split quaternionic analysis and the separation of the series for SL(2,R) and SL(2,C)/SL(2,R)" joint with Igor Frenkel we naturally apply the methods and formulas of quaternionic analysis to solve the problems of harmonic analysis on SL(2,R) and the imaginary Lobachevski space SL(2,C)/SL(2,R).

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@article{arxiv.1009.2540,
  title  = {An Invitation to Split Quaternionic Analysis},
  author = {Matvei Libine},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1009.2540},
  year   = {2010}
}

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18 pages, 1 figure, accepted for publication

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