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This paper presents an experimental study on the application of quaternions in several machine learning algorithms. Quaternion is a mathematical representation of rotation in three-dimensional space, which can be used to represent complex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Tianlei Zhu , Renzhe Zhu

As an expansion of complex numbers, the quaternions show close relations to numerous physically fundamental concepts. In spite of that, the didactic potential provided by quaternion interrelationships in formulating physical laws are hardly…

Physics Education · Physics 2007-05-23 Martin Erik Horn

We present a scheme of biquaternionic algebrodymamics based on a nonlinear generalization of the Cauchy-Riemann holomorphy conditions considered therein as fundamental field equations. The automorphism group SO(3,C) of the biquaternion…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Vladimir V. Kassandrov

As is well known, the common elementary functions defined over the real numbers can be generalized to act not only over the complex number field but also over the skew (non-commuting) field of the quaternions. In this paper, we detail a…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2015-04-09 James M. Chappell , Azhar Iqbal , Lachlan J. Gunn , Derek Abbott

In this paper, we use four-dimensional quaternionic algebra to describing space-time field equations in curvature form. The transformation relations of a quaternionic variable are established with the help of basis transformations of…

General Physics · Physics 2024-10-08 B. C. Chanyal

The paper aims to adopt the complex quaternion and octonion to formulate the field equations for electromagnetic and gravitational fields. Applying the octonionic representation enables one single definition to combine some physics contents…

General Physics · Physics 2016-10-17 Zi-Hua Weng

We derive a theory of quantum gravity containing an AdS$_3$ isometry/qubit duality. The theory is based on a superalgebra generalization of the enveloping algebra of the homogeneous AdS$_3$ spacetime isometry group and is isomorphic to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-27 Lucas Kocia Kovalsky

A comprehensive analysis of the morphology of the solution space for a special type of quadratic quaternion equation is presented. This equation, which arises in a surface construction problem, incorporates linear terms in a quaternion…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2016-01-14 Rida T. Farouki , Graziano Gentili , Carlotta Giannelli , Alessandra Sestini , Caterina Stoppato

The Standard Model of particle physics is derived from first principles from the free Dirac Lagrangian in 8-dimensional spacetime. Motivated by second quantization arguments, we embed the 4-dimensional Clifford algebra of the Dirac…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-18 Gonçalo M. Quinta

Quaternionic representations of Coxeter (reflection) groups of ranks 3 and 4, as well as those of E_8, have been used extensively in the literature. The present paper analyses such Coxeter groups in the Clifford Geometric Algebra framework,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-07-26 Pierre-Philippe Dechant

We consider Clifford algebras over the field of real or complex numbers as a quotient algebra without fixed basis. We present classification of Clifford algebra elements based on the notion of quaternion type. This classification allows us…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-09-13 D. S. Shirokov

Quaternion, an extension of complex number, is the first discovered non-commutative division algebra by William Rowan Hamilton in 1843. In this article, we review the recent progress on building up the connection between the mathematical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-01-31 Congjun Wu

While real Hamiltonian mechanics and Hermitian quantum mechanics can both be cast in the framework of complex canonical equations, their complex generalisations have hitherto been remained tangential. In this paper quaternionic and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Dorje C Brody , Eva-Maria Graefe

The paper aims to apply the complex-sedenions to explore the field equations of four fundamental interactions, which are relevant to the classical mechanics and quantum mechanics, in the curved spaces. J. C. Maxwell was the first to utilize…

General Physics · Physics 2019-02-18 Zi-Hua Weng

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

The Cartan's equations definig simple spinors (renamed pure by C. Chevalley) are interpreted as equations of motion in momentum spaces, in a constructive approach in which at each step the dimesions of spinor space are doubled while those…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-12 Paolo Budinich

In these lectures, we discuss some well-known facts about Clifford algebras: matrix representations, Cartan's periodicity of 8, double coverings of orthogonal groups by spin groups, Dirac equation in different formalisms, spinors in $n$…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-01-23 D. S. Shirokov

In this paper we find a Clifford algebra associated to generalized Fibonacci quaternions. In this way, we provide a nice algorithm to obtain a division quaternion algebra starting from a quaternion non-division algebra and vice-versa.

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2014-04-08 Cristina Flaut

Using the complex Klein-Gordon field as a model, we quantize the quaternionic scalar field in the real Hilbert space. The lagrangian formulation has accordingly been obtained, as well as the hamiltonian formulation, and the energy and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-13 Sergio Giardino

It is known that quaternions represent rotations in 3D Euclidean and Minkowski spaces. However, product by a quaternion gives rotation in two independent planes at once and to obtain single-plane rotations one has to apply by half-angle…

General Physics · Physics 2014-12-16 Merab Gogberashvili