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Factorizations for 3-rotations and polarization of the light in Mueller-Stokes an Jones formalisms

Mathematical Physics 2008-08-07 v1 math.MP

Abstract

Formulas describing all 2-element and 3-element factorizations of arbitrary element of the groups SU(2) and SO(3,R) are derived. Six 2-element factorizations, (U2U3U2),(U3U2U3),(U3U1U3),(U1U3U1),(U1U2U1),(U2U1U2) (U_{2}U_{3}U'_{2}), (U_{3}U_{2}U'_{3}), (U_{3}U_{1}U'_{3}), (U_{1}U_{3}U'_{1}), (U_{1}U_{2}U'_{1}), (U_{2}U_{1}U'_{2}), provide all possible way to define Euler type angles; and six 3-element ones, (U1U2U3),(U1U3U2),(U2U3U1),(U2U1U3),(U3U1U2),(U3U2U1) (U_{1}U_{2}U_{3}), (U_{1}U_{3}U'_{2}), (U_{2}U_{3}U_{1}), (U_{2}U_{1}U_{3}), (U_{3}U_{1}U_{2}), (U_{3}U_{2}U_{1}) provide all possible ways to parameterize the unitary and orthogonal groups by three elementary angles. In thecontext the light polarization formalism of Stokes-Mueller vectors and Jones spinors, relations produced give a base to resolve arbitrary pure polarization rotators into all possible sets of elementary rotators of two or three constituents.

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@article{arxiv.0808.0852,
  title  = {Factorizations for 3-rotations and polarization of the light in Mueller-Stokes an Jones formalisms},
  author = {V. M. Red'kov and N. G. Tokarevskaya},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0808.0852},
  year   = {2008}
}

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24 pages, Proc. of XV Annual Seminar NPCS - 2008, May 22-25, 2008, Minsk, Belarus