Slice regular functions and orthogonal complex structures over \(\mathbb{R}^8\) (Q2080305)

The paper is written for graduate students and researchers in the fields of hypercomplex algebras and hypercomplex analysis. Similar to techniques developed for quaternions, this paper extends the notion of slice regular functions and orthogonal complex structures to octonions. It first reviews the real algebra of octonions, defines the notion of slice regular functions considering complexified octonions, and of orthogonal almost-complex structures over octonions. Next real differentials of octonionic slice regular functions are considered, followed by almost-complex structures induced by octonionic slice regular functions. Moreoever singular sets of slice regular functions are studied and a quasi-open mapping theorem for these functions is established. An improved version of the open mapping theorem for octonionic slice regular functions is obtained based on the study of fibers of these functions. Finally it is proved that the branch set of a slice regular function is its singular set. All theorems are proved in full detail and quite a number of illustrative examples is provided alongside.