Quaternions and Special Relativity
classification
✦ hep-th
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relativityspecialquaternionicquaternionsalgebraappropriatechoicecomplexified
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We reformulate Special Relativity by a quaternionic algebra on reals. Using {\em real linear quaternions}, we show that previous difficulties, concerning the appropriate transformations on the $3+1$ space-time, may be overcome. This implies that a complexified quaternionic version of Special Relativity is a choice and not a necessity.
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