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For an elliptic complex of first order differential operators on a smooth manifold, we define a system of two equations which can be thought of as abstract Maxwell equations. The formal theory of this system proves to be very similar to…

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The paper aims to adopt the complex quaternion and octonion to formulate the field equations for electromagnetic and gravitational fields. Applying the octonionic representation enables one single definition to combine some physics contents…

General Physics · Physics 2016-10-17 Zi-Hua Weng

We investigate factorizability of a quadratic split quaternion polynomial. In addition to inequality conditions for existence of such factorization, we provide lucid geometric interpretations in the projective space over the split…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2020-08-27 Daniel F. Scharler , Johannes Siegele , Hans-Peter Schröcker

Dirac's operator and Maxwell's equations in vacuum are derived in the algebra of split octonions. The approximations are given which lead to classical Maxwell-Heaviside equations from full octonionic equations. The non-existence of magnetic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Merab Gogberashvili

We express Maxwell's equations as a single equation, first using the divergence of a special type of matrix field to obtain the four current, and then the divergence of a special matrix to obtain the Electromagnetic field. These two…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Daniel Henry Gottlieb

Octonions are 8-dimensional hypercomplex numbers which form the biggest normed division algebras over the real numbers. Motivated by applications in theoretical physics, continuous octonionic analysis has become an area of active research…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2024-11-27 Rolf Sören Kraußhar , Dmitrii Legatiuk

This note offers a conceptually straightforward and efficient way to formulate and solve problems in the electromagnetics of moving media based on a representation of Maxwell's equations in terms of differential forms on spacetime together…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 C E S Canovan , Robin W Tucker

In this article we study devlop some fundaments for a function theory in the 16-dimensional complexified octonions.

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Rolf Sören Krausshar , Heikki Orelma

In this paper, we provide an attractive analytic solution for Maxwell's equation for a given set of smooth periodic functions as initial condition with demonstrative examples. The complexity of the solution is comparable to the Fourier…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Xiaorong Zou

We prove a binomial formula for Macdonald polynomials and consider applications of it.

q-alg · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Andrei Okounkov

The 8 $\times$ 8 matrix representation of SO(8) Symmetry has been defined by using the direct product of Pauli matrices and Gamma matrices. These 8 $\times$ 8 matrices are being used to describe the rotations in SO(8) symmetry. The…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-12-12 Pushpa , P. S. Bisht , Tianjun Li , O. P. S. Negi

The generalized Maxwell equations are considered which include an additional gradient term. Such equations describe massless particles possessing spins one and zero. We find and investigate the matrix formulation of the first order of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-07-19 S. I. Kruglov

There are four division algebras over $\mathbb{R}$, namely real numbers, complex numbers, quaternions, and octonions. Lack of commutativity and associativity make it difficult to investigate algebraic and geometric properties of octonions.…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2021-01-01 T. Kalpa Madhawa

A new formulation of electromagnetism based on linear differential commutator brackets is developed. Maxwell equations are derived, using these commutator brackets, from the vector potential $\vec{A}$, the scalar potential $\phi$ and the…

General Physics · Physics 2012-03-21 Arbab I. Arbab , Faisal A. Yassein

Some Open Problems Concerning Orthogonal Polynomials.

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2016-12-06 Gökalp Alpan , Alexander Goncharov

We will obtain in this paper a generic expression of any element in athe Lie algebra of the derivations of the split octonions a over an arbitrary field. For this purpose, we will use the Zorn's matrices. We will also compute the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Pablo Alberca Bjerregaard , Candido Martin Gonzalez

Within the framework of exterior algebra, the concept of time-like quaternions has been previously established. This paper advances beyond the existing structure by elucidating the procedure for constructing time-like quaternions with the…

General Physics · Physics 2025-06-18 Ivano Colombaro

Mathematical proofs are presented concerning the existence of solutions of the Maxwell equations with suitable boundary conditions. In particular it is stated that the well known "delayed potentials" provide effective solutions of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-05-13 Luigi Corgnier

This paper proposes and analyzes a new operator splitting method for stochastic Maxwell equations driven by additive noise, which not only decomposes the original multi-dimensional system into some local one-dimensional subsystems, but also…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-23 Chuchu Chen , Jialin Hong , Lihai Ji

The classical quadratic formula and some of its lesser known variants for solving the quadratic equation are reviewed. Then, a new formula for the roots of a quadratic polynomial is presented.

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