Determination of the biquaternion divisors of zero, including the idempotents and nilpotents

Advances in Applied Clifford Algebras

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 401-410

  Sangwine, Stephen J ^a   Alfsmann, Daniel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biquaternion; Idempotent; Nilpotent; Primary 11R52; Quaternion

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952322111     PISSN: 01887009     EISSN: 16614909     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00006-010-0202-3     Document Type: Article

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