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This article considers the problem of designing adaption and optimisation techniques for training quantum learning machines. To this end, the division algebra of quaternions is used to derive an effective model for representing computation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-09 Sayed Pouria Talebi , Clive Cheong Took , Danilo P. Mandic

A novel single-frame quaternion estimator processing two vector observations is introduced. The singular cases are examined, and appropriate rotational solutions are provided. Additionally, an alternative method involving sequential…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-05-07 Caitong Peng , Daniel Choukroun

Square roots of complexified (complex) quaternions, namely, the Hamilton quaternion, coquaternion, nectorine, and conectorine are investigated. The isomorphisms between the complex quaternions and 3-dimensional multivectors of Clifford…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Adolfas Dargys , Arturas Acus

Quaternions have an (over a century-old) extensive and quite complicated interaction with special relativity. Since quaternions are intrinsically 4-dimensional, and do such a good job of handling 3-dimensional rotations, the hope has always…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-16 Thomas Berry , Matt Visser

Objects' rigid motions in 3D space are described by rotations and translations of a highly-correlated set of points, each with associated $x,y,z$ coordinates that real-valued networks consider as separate entities, losing information.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Guilherme Vieira , Eleonora Grassucci , Marcos Eduardo Valle , Danilo Comminiello

In this paper, we present some applications of quaternions and octonions. We present the real matrix representations for complex octonions and some of their properties which can be used in computations where these elements are involved.…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2017-12-27 Cristina Flaut

This article is an exhaustive revision of concepts and formulas related to quaternions and rotations in 3D space, and their proper use in estimation engines such as the error-state Kalman filter. The paper includes an in-depth study of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-11-08 Joan Solà

``Real Normed Algebras Revisited,'' the last paper of the late Gadi Moran, attempts to reconstruct the discovery of the complex numbers, the quaternions and the octonions, as well as proofs of their properties, using only what was known to…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2020-07-14 Tomer Moran , Shay Moran , Shlomo Moran

Multidimensional quaternion arrays (often referred to as "quaternion tensors") and their decompositions have recently gained increasing attention in various fields such as color and polarimetric imaging or video processing. Despite this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-13 Julien Flamant , Xavier Luciani , Sebastian Miron , Yassine Zniyed

An involution is usually defined as a mapping that is its own inverse. In this paper, we study quaternion involutions that have the additional properties of distribution over addition and multiplication. We review formal axioms for such…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2007-06-13 Todd A. Ell , Stephen J. Sangwine

This is part one of a series of four methodological papers on (bi)quaternions and their use in theoretical and mathematical physics: 1- Alphabetical bibliography, 2- Analytical bibliography, 3- Notations and terminology, and 4- Formulas and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-07-06 Andre Gsponer , Jean-Pierre Hurni

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

Before we dive into the accessibility stream of nowadays indicatory applications of octonions to computer and other sciences and to quantum physics let us focus for a while on the crucially relevant events for todays revival on interest to…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2011-07-26 A. K. Kwasniewski

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

Quaternions, introduced by Hamilton in 1843 as a generalization of complex numbers, have found, in more recent years, a wealth of applications in a number of different areas which motivated the design of efficient methods for numerically…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-14 M. Irene Falcão , Fernando Miranda , Ricardo Severino , M. Joana Soares

In this work, we use the concept of quaternion time and demonstrate that it can be applied for description of four-dimensional space-time intervals. We demonstrate that the quaternion time interval together with the finite speed of light…

General Physics · Physics 2021-06-14 Viktor Ariel

The paper aims to extend major equations in the electromagnetic and gravitational theories from the flat space into the complex octonion curved space. Maxwell applied simultaneously the quaternion analysis and vector terminology to describe…

General Physics · Physics 2016-04-19 Zi-Hua Weng

In this study, we introduce the concept of commutative quaternions and commutative quaternion matrices. Firstly, we give some properties of commutative quaternions and their Hamilton matrices. After that we investigate commutative…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2016-11-26 Hidayet Hüda Kösal , Murat Tosun

A novel framework for a unifying treatment of quaternion valued adaptive filtering algorithms is introduced. This is achieved based on a rigorous account of quaternion differentiability, the proposed I-gradient, and the use of augmented…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2013-10-22 Cyrus Jahanchahi , Danilo P. Mandic

Rotary Positional Embeddings (RoPE) have demonstrated exceptional performance as a positional encoding method, consistently outperforming their baselines. While recent work has sought to extend RoPE to higher-dimensional inputs, many such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Sameeksha Sriram , Ayush Paliwal , Alexander S. Ecker , Chase van de Geijn