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Hyperquaternions and Physics

by Patrick R. Girard, Romaric Pujol, Patrick Clarysse, Philippe Delachartre

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Authors (as Contributors): Patrick Girard
Submission information
Preprint link: scipost_202211_00033v3
Date submitted: 2023-01-07 17:21
Submitted by: Girard, Patrick
Submitted to: SciPost Physics Proceedings
Proceedings issue: 34th International Colloquium on Group Theoretical Methods in Physics
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Academic field: Physics
Specialties:
  • Mathematical Physics
Approach: Theoretical

Abstract

The paper develops, within a new representation of Clifford algebras in terms of tensor products of quaternions called hyperquaternions, several applications. The first application is a quaternion 2D representation in contradistinction to the frequently used 3D one. The second one is a new representation of the conformal group in (1+2) space (signature +--) within the Dirac algebra C5(2,3)=C*H*H subalgebra of H*H*H (* tensor product). A numerical example and a canonical decomposition into simple planes are given. The third application is a classification of all hyperquaternion algebras into four types, providing the general formulas of the signatures and relating them to the symmetry groups of physics.

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1) Introduction (+-) changed into (+--)

2)
Section 5 addition of
« Concerning the matrix representation of hyperquaternion algebras, which is beyond the scope of this paper, the above
isomorphisms show that H*H can be represented either by a reducible real matrix R(16) (real
16×16 matrix) or by an irreducible R(4) matrix (H being represented by an irreducible
R(4) matrix). Similarly, H*H*H and its subalgebra C*H*H can be represented either by a reducible
matrix R(64) or by an irreducible matrix R(16) . A classification of real irreducible
representations of quaternionic Clifford algebras can be found in [16,17]. »

Addition of two references
[16] S. Okubo, Real representations of finite Clifford algebras. I. Classification, J. Math. Phys.
32, 1657 (1991), doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2003/04/040
[17] H.L. Carrion, M. Rojas, F. Toppan, Quaternionic and Octonionic Spinors. A Classification,
JHEP04. 2003, (2003), doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2003/04/040

3) Acknowledgements : addition of
« The authors acknowledge and thank an anonymous referee for comments clarifying the
matrix quaternionic Clifford algebra representation issue. »

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Resubmission scipost_202211_00033v3 on 7 January 2023
Resubmission scipost_202211_00033v2 on 6 January 2023

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Anonymous Report 1 on 2023-1-9 (Invited Report)

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The authors answered the question raised in the previous report and clarified the relation between quaternionic and hyperquaternionic representations of Clifford algebras.
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