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A Note on the Construction of Complex and Quaternionic Vector Fields on Spheres
M. Obiedat Gallaudet University
Abstract:
A relationship between real, complex, and quaternionic vector fields on spheres is given by using a relationship between the corresponding standard inner products. The number of linearly independent complex vector fields on the standard $(4n-1)$-sphere is shown to be twice the number of linearly independent quaternionic vector fields plus $d$, where $d=1$ or $3$.
Keywords:
complex vector field, quaternionic vector field, realification function, complexification function, James numbers.
Received: 17.01.2011
Citation:
M. Obiedat, “A Note on the Construction of Complex and Quaternionic Vector Fields on Spheres”, Mat. Zametki, 93:1 (2013), 104–110; Math. Notes, 93:1 (2013), 151–157
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https://www.mathnet.ru/eng/mzm10134https://doi.org/10.4213/mzm10134 https://www.mathnet.ru/eng/mzm/v93/i1/p104
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