Quaternion polar representation with a complex modulus and complex argument inspired by the Cayley-Dickson form

Advances in Applied Clifford Algebras

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 111-120

  Sangwine, Stephen J ^a   Bihan, Nicolas Le ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b GIPSA LAB   (France)

Author keywords

Cayley dickson form; Polar form; Quaternions

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952239499     PISSN: 01887009     EISSN: 16614909     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00006-008-0128-1     Document Type: Article

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