Determination of the biquaternion divisors of zero, including the idempotents and nilpotents. (Q5962210)

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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 5789683
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    Determination of the biquaternion divisors of zero, including the idempotents and nilpotents.
    scientific article; zbMATH DE number 5789683

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      Determination of the biquaternion divisors of zero, including the idempotents and nilpotents. (English)
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      21 September 2010
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      The complexified quaternions were already considered by Hamilton himself shortly after his invention of the quaternion skew-field. In the paper under review, simple criteria for zero divisors, in particular, idempotents and nilpotent elements, are presented.
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      zero divisors
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      idempotents
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      nilpotent elements
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      biquaternions
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      complexified quaternions
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