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This paper describes the passage of light through a system of waveplates mathematically in terms of quaternions, an extension of the complex numbers, instead of the more usual Jones vectors and Jones matrices. Both the light beam and the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-27 Michael G. Taylor

We explore Jordan derivations of triangular matrices with entries from an additively idempotent semiring. The main result states that for any matrix A over additively idempotent semiring, if we put all the elements of the family of dense…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2018-02-27 Dimitrinka Vladeva

Given any diagram of a link, we define on the cube of Kauffman's states a "2-complex" whose homology is an invariant of the associated framed links, and such that the graded Euler characteristic reproduces the unnormalized Kauffman bracket.…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2013-06-14 Alessio Carrega

In this note, we explore the connections between the confluent Vandermonde matrix over an arbitrary field and several mathematical topics, including interpolation polynomials, Hasse derivatives, LU factorization, companion matrices and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Chi-Kwong Li , Jephian C. -H. Lin

The effects of a beamsplitter are frequently described mathematically as a matrix acting on a two input ports vector. This might be comprehensive for a scalar field but certainly insufficient in case of photons which are vector fields. In…

Optics · Physics 2021-10-19 Artem Kryvobok , Alan D. Kathman

We demonstrate that the multipoles associated with the density matrix are truly observable quantities that can be unambiguously determined from intensity moments. Given their correct transformation properties, these multipoles are the…

We give an explicit algorithm for calculating the Kauffman bracket of a link diagram from a Goeritz matrix for that link. Further, we show how the Jones polynomial can be recovered from a Goeritz matrix when the corresponding checkerboard…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-03-06 Joe Boninger

The non-Abelian aether-like Lorentz-breaking term, involving triple and quartic self-coupling vertices, is generated from the non-Abelian generalization of the Lorentz-breaking extended QED including only a minimal spinor-vector…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-08 A. J. G. Carvalho , D. R. Granado , J. R. Nascimento , A. Yu. Petrov

We have described a novel way to determine the Mueller matrix of any optical element by using projection method. For this purpose, we have used two universal SU(2) gadgets for polarization optics to obtain projection matrix directly from…

In this note, we construct explicit SOS decomposition of A Fourth Order Four Dimensional Hankel Tensor with A Symmetric Generating Vector, at the critical value. This is a supplementary note to Paper [3].

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-12 Yannan Chen , Liqun Qi , Qun Wang

A non-relativistic quark coalescence model is formulated for polarized vector mesons and baryons of spin-1/2 octet and spin-3/2 decuplet. With the spin density matrix, one can compute in a uniform way the polarizations of vector mesons and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-04-04 Yang-guang Yang , Ren-hong Fang , Qun Wang , Xin-nian Wang

This paper studies modular forms of rank four and level one. There are two possiblities for the isomorphism type of the space of modular forms that can arise from an irreducible representation of the modular group of rank four, and we…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2018-10-23 Cameron Franc , Geoff Mason

When light scatters off an object its polarization, in general, changes - a transformation described by the object's Mueller matrix. Mueller matrix imaging polarimetry is an important technique in science and technology to image the…

Systems of two ordinary and partial differential equations (ODEs and PDEs) had been obtained from a scalar complex ODE by splitting it into its real and imaginary parts. The procedure was also carried out to obtain a four dimensional system…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2011-08-29 F M Mahomed , Asghar Qadir

Constructive algorithms, requiring no more than $2\times 2$ matrix manipulations, are provided for finding the entries of the positive definite factor in the polar decomposition of matrices in sixteen groups preserving a bilinear form in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-07-18 Francis Adjei , Marcus Cisneros , Deep Desai , Viswanath Ramakrishna , Brandon Whiteley

It is shown that a very simple multiplicative random complex matrix model generalizes the large-N phase structure found in the unitary case: A perturbative regime is joined to a non-perturbative regime at a point where the smoothness of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-03-02 Robert Lohmayer , Herbert Neuberger , Tilo Wettig

Precise control over the spatial and polarization properties of light is foundational for advanced photonic systems, yet most conventional approaches are constrained to local, contact-based manipulation at physical interfaces. To overcome…

Optics · Physics 2025-06-06 Mingyue Wang , Jiayuan Wang

Motivated by known examples of Joyce structures on spaces of meromorphic quadratic differentials, we consider the isomonodromic deformations of particular second-order linear ODEs with rational potential. We show the infinitesimal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-22 Timothy Moy

Modern digital crosscorrelators permit the simultaneous measurement of all four Stokes parameters. However, the results must be calibrated to correct for the polarization transfer function of the receiving system. The transfer function for…

A procedure to obtain differentiation matrices is extended straightforwardly to yield new differentiation matrices useful to obtain derivatives of complex rational functions. Such matrices can be used to obtain numerical solutions of some…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Rafael G. Campos , Claudio Meneses