Quaternions and Special Relativity
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-10-28 v1
Abstract
We reformulate Special Relativity by a quaternionic algebra on reals. Using {\em real linear quaternions}, we show that previous difficulties, concerning the appropriate transformations on the space-time, may be overcome. This implies that a complexified quaternionic version of Special Relativity is a choice and not a necessity.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/9508011,
title = {Quaternions and Special Relativity},
author = {Stefano De Leo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9508011},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
17 pages, latex, no figures