Volume no :13, Issue no: 1, February (2015)

VECTOR REPRESENTATION OF QUATERNIONS. SOLUTIONS OF QUATERNIONIC QUADRATIC EQUATIONS

Author's: Niki-Lina Matiadou and Perikles Papadopoulos
Pages: [15] - [26]
Received Date: February 28, 2015
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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18642/jsata_7100121461

Abstract

The fundamental theorem of algebra over the quaternion skew field has gained little attention. It is of less importance than that over the complex number field, though some problems may reduce to it.

In this work, we use the vector representation of quaternions in order to obtain simplified forms of the solutions of the quaternionic equation with in Similarly, we conclude that the following equation with a, b in has the unique solution although for some special cases we obtain infinite number of solutions.

Keywords

quaternions.