Functional equations for vector products and quaternions (Q1941998): Difference between revisions

Motivated by certain identities in the skew field \(\mathbb{H}\) of quaternions, the authors consider and solve completely the functional equations \[ f(r,v)\cdot f(s,w)=-\langle v,w\rangle+f(r s,s v+r w+v\times w) \] and \[ g(v)\cdot g(w)=-\langle v,w\rangle+g(v\times w), \] where \(f:\mathbb{R}\times\mathbb{R}^3\to\mathbb{H}\), \(g:\mathbb{R}^3\to\mathbb{H}\), and \(r,s\in\mathbb{R}\), \(v,w\in\mathbb{R}^3\).