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Generalized Quaternion and Rotation in 3-space E (3-alfa,beta)

Mathematical Physics 2017-03-10 v4 math.MP

Abstract

The paper explains how a unit generalized quaternion is used to represent a rotation of a vector in 3-dimensional space. We review of some algebraic properties of generalized quaternions and operations between them and then show their relation with the rotation matrix.

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@article{arxiv.1204.2476,
  title  = {Generalized Quaternion and Rotation in 3-space E (3-alfa,beta)},
  author = {Mehdi Jafari and Yusuf Yayli},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1204.2476},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

This paper has been withdrawn by the author due to a crucial sign error in some Theorems

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