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Over the past few years, the applications of dual-quaternions have not only developed in many different directions but has also evolved in exciting ways in several areas. As dual-quaternions offer an efficient and compact symbolic form with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-28 Benjamin Kenwright

This paper revisits the topic of rotation estimation through the lens of special unitary matrices. We begin by reformulating Wahba's problem using $SU(2)$ to derive multiple solutions that yield linear constraints on corresponding…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Akshay Chandrasekhar

We study the induced spherical ensemble of non-Hermitian matrices with real quaternion entries (considering each quaternion as a $2\times 2$ complex matrix). We define the ensemble by the matrix probability distribution function that is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-06-21 Anthony Mays , Anita Ponsaing

Many phenomena are described by bivariate signals or bidimensional vectors in applications ranging from radar to EEG, optics and oceanography. The time-frequency analysis of bivariate signals is usually carried out by analyzing two separate…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-09-09 Julien Flamant , Nicolas Le Bihan , Pierre Chainais

Although regular conditional distributions (r.c.d.) are well-defined and widely used measure-theoretic objects, they can violate our intuition from the classical definition of a conditional probability given an event. For that purpose, the…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-03-27 Hristo Sariev

A novel approach towards the spectral analysis of stationary random bivariate signals is proposed. Using the Quaternion Fourier Transform, we introduce a quaternion-valued spectral representation of random bivariate signals seen as…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-11-22 Julien Flamant , Nicolas Le Bihan , Pierre Chainais

We propose a new method to define theories of random geometries, using an explicit and simple map between metrics and large hermitian matrices. We outline some of the many possible applications of the formalism. For example, a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-12-09 Frank Ferrari , Semyon Klevtsov , Steve Zelditch

The spectral density of random matrices is studied through a quaternionic generalisation of the Green's function, which precisely describes the mean spectral density of a given matrix under a particular type of random perturbation. Exact…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-04-08 Tim Rogers

Dual quaternions have gained significant attention due to their wide applications in areas such as multi-agent formation control, 3D motion modeling, and robotics. A fundamental aspect in dual quaternion research involves the projection…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-24 Ziyang Li , Chunfeng Cui , Jiaxin Xie

The interior structure of arbitrary sets of quaternion units is analyzed using general methods of the theory of matrices. It is shown that the units are composed of quadratic combinations of fundamental objects having a dual mathematical…

General Physics · Physics 2012-11-08 Alexander P. Yefremov

Quaternions are important for a wide variety of rotation-related problems in computer graphics, machine vision, and robotics. We study the nontrivial geometry of the relationship between quaternions and rotation matrices by exploiting the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-20 Andrew J. Hanson , Sonya M. Hanson

The immediate purpose of the paper was neither to review the basic definitions of percolation theory nor to rehearse the general physical notions of universality and renormalization (an important technique to be described in Part Two). It…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-10-27 Robert Langlands , Philippe Pouliot , Yvan Saint-Aubin

The presence of second-order smoothness for objective functions of optimization problems can provide valuable information about their stability properties and help us design efficient numerical algorithms for solving these problems. Such…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-04 N. T. V. Hang , M. E. Sarabi

The review of modern study of algebraic, geometric and differential properties of quaternionic (Q) numbers with their applications. Traditional and "tensor" formulation of Q-units with their possible representations are discussed and groups…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. P. Yefremov

Objects' rigid motions in 3D space are described by rotations and translations of a highly-correlated set of points, each with associated $x,y,z$ coordinates that real-valued networks consider as separate entities, losing information.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Guilherme Vieira , Eleonora Grassucci , Marcos Eduardo Valle , Danilo Comminiello

We introduce real second-order freeness in second-order noncommutative probability spaces. We demonstrate that under this definition, three real models of random matrices, namely real Ginibre matrices, Gaussian orthogonal matrices, and real…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2015-03-25 C. Emily I. Redelmeier

We develop quaternionic analysis using as a guiding principle representation theory of various real forms of the conformal group. We first review the Cauchy-Fueter and Poisson formulas and explain their representation theoretic meaning. The…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2011-07-25 Igor Frenkel , Matvei Libine

In recursive state estimation, numerical error can play a major role in an algorithm's overall performance and reliability. Roundoff errors due to finite precision arithmetic can violate theoretical guarantees, leading to asymmetric and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-08 Keith A. LeGrand , Braden Hastings , Jackson Kulik

Solving dual quaternion equations is an important issue in many fields such as scientific computing and engineering applications. In this paper, we first introduce a new metric function for dual quaternion matrices. Then, we reformulate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-11 Chen Ling , Chenjian Pan , Liqun Qi

Linear algebra is usually defined over a field such as the reals or complex numbers. It is possible to extend this to skew fields such as the quaternions. However, to the authors' knowledge there is no commonly accepted notation of linear…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2014-03-21 Dominik Schulz , Reiner S. Thomä