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Classification and Decomposition of Quaternionic Projective Transformations

Group Theory 2023-07-20 v2 Geometric Topology

Abstract

We consider the projective linear group PSL(3,H)\mathrm{PSL}(3,\mathbb{H}). We have investigated the reversibility problem in this group and use the reversibility to offer an algebraic characterization of the dynamical types of PSL(3,H)\mathrm{PSL}(3,\mathbb{H}). We further decompose elements of SL(3,H)\mathrm{SL}(3,\mathbb{H}) as products of simple elements, where an element gg in SL(3,H)\mathrm{SL}(3,\mathbb{H}) is called simple\textit{simple} if it is conjugate to an element of SL(3,R)\mathrm{SL}(3,\mathbb{R}). We have also revisited real projective transformations and following Goldman's ideas, have offered a complete classification for elements of SL(3,R)\mathrm{SL }(3,\mathbb{R}).

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@article{arxiv.2212.02206,
  title  = {Classification and Decomposition of Quaternionic Projective Transformations},
  author = {Sandipan Dutta and Krishnendu Gongopadhyay and Tejbir Lohan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.02206},
  year   = {2023}
}

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