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Second order circularity, also called properness, for complex random variables is a well known and studied concept. In the case of quaternion random variables, some extensions have been proposed, leading to applications in quaternion signal…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2016-11-24 Nicolas Le Bihan

Rotational spectroscopy is the most accurate method for determining structures of molecules in the gas phase. It is often assumed that a rotational spectrum is a unique "fingerprint" of a molecule. The availability of large molecular…

We present a quaternion inspired formalism specifically developed to evaluate the intensity of the electrical current that traverses a single molecule connected to two semi-infinite electrodes as the applied external bias is varied. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-18 Augusto C. L. Moreira , Celso P. de Melo

One of the important ways development takes place in mathematics is via a process of generalization. On the basis of a recent characterization of this process we propose a principle that generalizations of mathematical structures that are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-02-03 Ronald Anderson , Girish C. Joshi

This paper performs the modeling of a Cubli, a cube with three reaction wheels mounted on orthogonal faces that becomes a reaction wheel based 3D inverted pendulum when positioned in one of its vertices. The approach novelty is that…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-01 Fabio Bobrow , Bruno A. Angelico , Flavius P. R. Martins

Rotation representations are foundational in fields such as computer graphics, robotics, and machine learning, where precise and efficient modeling of 3D orientations is critical. This paper comprehensively investigates diverse…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Aizierjiang Aiersilan , Haochen Liu , James Hahn

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

This is part two 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

This article investigates Kak neural networks, which can be instantaneously trained, for complex and quaternion inputs. The performance of the basic algorithm has been analyzed and shown how it provides a plausible model of human perception…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Adityan Rishiyur

Rotations on the 3-dimensional Euclidean vector-space can be represented by real quaternions, as was shown by Hamilton. Introducing complex quaternions allows us to extend the result to elliptic and hyperbolic rotations on the Minkowski…

Optics · Physics 2024-07-17 Pierre Pellat-Finet

A formal description of quaternions by means of exterior calculus is presented. Considering a three-dimensional space-time characterized by three time-like coordinates, we have been able to consistently recover a suitable formulation of…

General Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Ivano Colombaro

We give a simple and self contained introduction to quaternions and their practical usage in dynamics. The rigid body dynamics are presented in full details. In the appendix, some more exotic relations are given that allow to write more…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2008-11-19 Basile Graf

Quaternions are important for a wide variety of rotation-related problems in computer graphics, machine vision, and robotics. We study the nontrivial geometry of the relationship between quaternions and rotation matrices by exploiting the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-20 Andrew J. Hanson , Sonya M. Hanson

In the last one and a half centuries, the analysis of quaternions has not only led to further developments in mathematics but has also been and remains an important catalyst for the further development of theories in physics. At the same…

Physics Education · Physics 2007-09-17 Martin Erik Horn

Quaternion symmetry is ubiquitous in the physical sciences. As such, much work has been afforded over the years to the development of efficient schemes to exploit this symmetry using real and complex linear algebra. Recent years have also…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2019-03-14 David Williams-Young , Xiaosong Li

Capsules are grouping of neurons that allow to represent sophisticated information of a visual entity such as pose and features. In the view of this property, Capsule Networks outperform CNNs in challenging tasks like object recognition in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-10 Barış Özcan , Furkan Kınlı , Furkan Kıraç

Chiral tetrahedral molecules can be dealt under the standard of quaternionic algebra. Specifically, non-commutativity of quaternions is a feature directly related to the chirality of molecules. It is shown that a quaternionic representation…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Salvatore Capozziello , Alessandra Lattanzi

It is shown that the groups of Euclidian rotations, rigid motions, proper, orthochronous Lorentz transformations, and the complex rigid motions can be represented by the groups of unit-norm elements in the algebras of real, dual, complex,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-05-22 D. H. Delphenich

Functions of several quaternion variables are investigated and integral representation theorems for them are proved. With the help of them solutions of the $\tilde \partial $-equations are studied. Moreover, quaternion Stein manifolds are…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2007-05-23 S. V. Ludkovsky

The use of quaternions as a novel tool for color image representation has yielded impressive results in color image processing. By considering the color image as a unified entity rather than separate color space components, quaternions can…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-02 Jifei Miao , Kit Ian Kou , Liqiao Yang , Juan Han