Fundaments of quaternionic Clifford analysis. I: Quaternionic structure (Q2514104)

This paper is suited for graduate students and researchers of mathematics and theoretical physics. The introduction outlines the strategy of developing quaternionic Clifford analysis as generalizations of holomorphic functions and Hermitian monogenic functions by successively introducing a complex structure and a quaternionic structure. Quaternionic monogenic functions are defined on a fourfold dimensional Euclidean space, take values in a Clifford algebra, and are null solutions of a quaternionic Dirac operator and three of its conjugations. Basically the whole formalism is developed both on the level or real matrices as well as in terms of Clifford algebra. Section two gives basics of Clifford algebras. Section three introduces the quaternionic structure as a combination of two non-commuting complex structures with natural bijections from quaternionic to complex to real Euclidean spaces; this goes up to the level of Lie algebras. The result is a nested structure of skew-symmetric matrices, skew-Hermitian matrices, skew-symmetric matrices commuting with two complex structures, and bivectors commuting with two (complex structure related) bivectors. Section four on spinor space introduces homogeneous spinor spaces in Clifford algebras, Witt vector basis, (complex) Lie algebras of bivectors in Clifford algebras, symplectic cells (of homogenous spinor space) as irreducible symplectric group \(\mathrm{Sp}(p)\) representations ordered in a triangular Fischer decomposition scheme, including cell transition operators. Then, a set of projection operators on the symplectic cells is established, and the action of the Witt basis vectors in the symplectic cells is investigated. Finally, Section 5 develops the subject of quaternionic Clifford analysis using a Dirac vector derivative and the previously introduced two complex structures to additionally apply three twisted Dirac derivatives: Functions from \(\mathbb{R}^4\) into spinor spaces are quaternionic monogenic if and only if (in some region of \(\mathbb{R}^4\)) they are zeroed by the Dirac derivative and its three twisted versions. An underlying symmetry group is found to be the symplectic group \(\mathrm{Sp}(p)\).