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In this work, a novel quaternary algebra has been proposed that can be used to implement an arbitrary quaternary logic function in more than one systematic ways. The proposed logic has evolved from and is closely related to the Boolean…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2017-12-21 Ifat Jahangir , Anindya Das , Masud Hasan

We extend the discussion of projective group representations in quaternionic Hilbert space which was given in our recent book. The associativity condition for quaternionic projective representations is formulated in terms of unitary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Stephen L. Adler

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

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

The article reviews some of the (fairly scattered) information available in the mathematical literature on the subject of angles in complex vector spaces. The following angles and their relations are considered: Euclidean, complex, and…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2011-10-20 K. Scharnhorst

This paper is meant to be an informative introduction to spinor representations of Clifford algebras. In this paper we will have a look at Clifford algebras and the octonion algebra. We begin the paper looking at the quaternion algebra…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2019-06-28 Ricardo Suarez

This is a continuation of a series of papers [FL1, FL2, FL3], where we develop quaternionic analysis from the point of view of representation theory of the conformal Lie group and its Lie algebra. In this paper we continue to study the…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2014-04-29 Igor Frenkel , Matvei Libine

In this paper, we introduce the notion of quaternion shearlet transform- which is an extension of the ordinary shearlet transform. Firstly, we study the fundamental properties of quaternion shearlet transforms and then establish some basic…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-17 Firdous A. Shah , Azhar Y. Tantary

The paper presents a classification of quadratic extension algebras, also known as algebras of degree 2, as well as several characterizations of quaternion algebras over a field (of characteristic not 2). The presentation is not restricted…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2016-09-27 France Dacar

4-dimensional optics is here introduced axiomatically as the space that supports a Universal wave equation which is applied to the postulated Higgs field. Self-guiding of this field is shown to produce all the modes necessary to provide…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Jose B. Almeida

This work rests upon the certainty that only fields of real and complex numbers, quaternions and octonions have algebras of all four arithmetical operations. Also quaternions are good to represent 3-dimensional Euclid space and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-06-03 Sergei Yakimenko

We explain the orthogonal planes split (OPS) of quaternions based on the arbitrary choice of one or two linearly independent pure unit quaternions $f,g$. Next we systematically generalize the quaternionic Fourier transform (QFT) applied to…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2013-06-10 Eckhard Hitzer

In this paper we show how relativistic tensor dynamics and relativistic electrodynamics can be formulated in a biquaternion tensor language. The treatment is restricted to mathematical physics, known facts as the Lorentz Force Law and the…

General Physics · Physics 2014-01-21 E. P. J. de Haas

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

Vision-based 3D human motion capture from videos remains a challenge in computer vision. Traditional 3D pose estimation approaches often ignore the temporal consistency between frames, causing implausible and jittery motion. The emerging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Cuong Le , Pavlo Melnyk , Urs Waldmann , Mårten Wadenbäck , Bastian Wandt

This paper presents a pedagogical introduction to the issue of how to implement Lorentz transformations in relativistic visualization. The most efficient approach is to use the even geometric algebra in 3+1 spacetime dimensions, or…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-19 Andrew J. S. Hamilton

Robots that interact with humans in a physical space or application need to think about the person's posture, which typically comes from visual sensors like cameras and infra-red. Artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms use…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Richard G. Freedman , Joseph B. Mueller , Jack Ladwig , Steven Johnston , David McDonald , Helen Wauck , Ruta Wheelock , Hayley Borck

The ideas of instantaneous amplitude and phase are well understood for signals with real-valued samples, based on the analytic signal which is a complex signal with one-sided Fourier transform. We extend these ideas to signals with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-03-05 Nicolas Le Bihan , Stephen J. Sangwine , Todd A. Ell

Inspired by the relation between the algebra of complex numbers and plane geometry, William Rowan Hamilton sought an algebra of triples for application to three dimensional geometry. Unable to multiply and divide triples, he invented a…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2016-06-13 Govind S. Krishnaswami , Sonakshi Sachdev

The general linear quaternion function of degree one is a sum of terms with quaternion coefficients on the left and right. The paper considers the canonic form of such a function, and builds on the recent work of Todd Ell, who has shown…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2008-01-21 Stephen J. Sangwine