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This paper aims to examine the characteristics of the posterior distribution of covariance/precision matrices in a "large $p$, large $n$" scenario, where $p$ represents the number of variables and $n$ is the sample size. Our analysis…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-02 Partha Sarkar , Kshitij Khare , Malay Ghosh , Matt P. Wand

Extensions of real numbers in more than two dimensions, in particular quaternions and octonions are finding applications in physics due to the fact that they naturally capture certain symmetries of physical systems. Here it is shown that…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2014-07-15 Horia I. Petrache

Dimensionality reduction is a crucial technique in data analysis, as it allows for the efficient visualization and understanding of high-dimensional datasets. The circular coordinate is one of the topological data analysis techniques…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-01-31 Taejin Paik , Jaemin Park

Quaternion symmetry is ubiquitous in the physical sciences. As such, much work has been afforded over the years to the development of efficient schemes to exploit this symmetry using real and complex linear algebra. Recent years have also…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2019-03-14 David Williams-Young , Xiaosong Li

Any procedure applied to data, and any quantity derived from data, is required to respect the nature and symmetries of the data. This axiom applies to refinement procedures and multiresolution transforms as well as to more basic operations…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-18 Johannes Wallner

Quaternions provide a unified algebraic and geometric framework for representing three-dimensional rotations without the singularities that afflict Euler-angle parametrisations. This article develops a pedagogical and conceptual analysis of…

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…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-03-10 Mehdi Jafari , Yusuf Yayli

We prove that quaternion Gaussian random matrices satisfy the restricted isometry property (RIP) with overwhelming probability. We also explain why the restricted isometry random variables (RIV) approach is not appropriate for drawing…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-05-01 Agnieszka Badeńska , Łukasz Błaszczyk

In this paper we extend some previous results for a new proposal for gravity and place them into overall context. The basic fields of this proposal provide an off-shell realization of symmetry with respect to SO(3,C) gauge transformations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-06-01 Eyo Eyo Ita

For quaternionic signal processing algorithms, the gradients of a quaternion-valued function are required for gradient-based methods. Given the non-commutativity of quaternion algebra, the definition of the gradients is non-trivial. The HR…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-07-22 Mengdi Jiang , Yi Li , Wei Liu

After introducing the definitions of positive, negative and companion rules, from a given pair of companion rules we construct a new rule with higher degree of precision The scheme is generalized giving rise to a transformation which we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-24 Mário M. Graça

A new problem is studied, the concept of exactness of a second order nonlinear ordinary differential equations is established. A method is constructed to reduce this class into a first order equations. If the second order equation is not…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2019-08-17 R. AlAhmad , M. Al-Jararha , H. Almefleh

The purpose of this paper is to propose a new multi-layer feedforward quaternion neural network model architecture, Reverse Quaternion Neural Network which utilizes the non-commutative nature of quaternion products, and to clarify its…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Shogo Yamauchi , Tohru Nitta , Takaaki Ohnishi

This paper focuses on regularisation methods using models up to the third order to search for up to second-order critical points of a finite-sum minimisation problem. The variant presented belongs to the framework of [3]: it employs random…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-05 Stefania Bellavia , Gianmarco Gurioli , Benedetta Morini , Philippe L. Toint

The conventional rounding error analysis provides worst-case bounds with an associated failure probability and ignores the statistical property of the rounding errors. In this paper, we develop a new statistical rounding error analysis for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Yiming Fang , Li Chen

We consider quadrangles of perimeter $2$ in the plane with marked directed edge. To such quadrangle $Q$ a two-dimensional plane $\Pi\in\mathbb{R}^4$ with orthonormal base is corresponded. Orthogonal plane $\Pi^\bot$ defines a plane…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2019-11-22 Irina Busjatskaja , Yury Kochetkov

The spinor representation of spin-1/2 states can equally well be mapped to a single unit quaternion, yielding a new perspective despite the equivalent mathematics. This paper first demonstrates a useable map that allows Bloch-sphere…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 K. B. Wharton , D. Koch

In a previous paper, we provided some update in the treatment of the finiteness theorem for rational maps of finite degree from a fixed variety to varieties of general type. In the present paper we present another improvement, introducing…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2012-03-13 Lucio Guerra , Gian Pietro Pirola

Quaternion analysis is considered in full details where a new analyticity condition in complete analogy to complex analysis is found. The extension to octonions is also worked out.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-03 Khaled Abdel-Khalek

Quaternion (Q-) mathematics formally contains many fragments of physical laws; in particular, the Hamiltonian for the Pauli equation automatically emerges in a space with Q-metric. The eigenfunction method shows that any Q-unit has an…

General Physics · Physics 2015-03-18 Alexander P. Yefremov