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On the Differentiability of Quaternion Functions

Complex Variables 2012-03-27 v1

Abstract

Motivated by the general problem of extending the classical theory of holomorphic functions of a complex variable to the case of quater- nion functions, we give a notion of an H-derivative for functions of one quaternion variable. We show that the elementary quaternion func- tions introduced by Hamilton as well as the quaternion logarithm function possess such a derivative. We conclude by establishing rules for calculating H-derivatives.

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@article{arxiv.1203.5619,
  title  = {On the Differentiability of Quaternion Functions},
  author = {Omar Dzagnidze},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1203.5619},
  year   = {2012}
}
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