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We derive necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of the exact solution to the Sylvester-type quaternion tensor system $ \mathcal{A}_i\ast_{N}\mathcal{X}_i+ \mathcal{Y}_i\ast_{M}\mathcal{B}_i+\mathcal{C}_i\ast_{N}…

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Division-of-focal-plane modulation is a powerful technique for real-time polarization imaging. This technique, however, suffers from the non-uniformity of the performance of linear polarization filters and photodetectors. We study the…

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We extend the spherical tensorial formalism for polarization to the treatment of electric- and magnetic-multipole transitions of any order. We rely on the spherical-wave expansion to derive the tensor form of the operator describing the…

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We extend some results of group representation theory and von Neumann algebras to the quaternionic Hilbert space case, proving the double commutant theorem (whose quaternionic proof requires a different procedure) and extend to the…

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This paper investigates the necessary and sufficient algebraic conditions to a constrained system of Sylvester-type quaternion tensor equations. An explicit formula of the general solution regarding the Moore-Penrose inverses of some block…

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