On the composition of finite rotations in E^4

DOI10.7546/JGSP-39-2015-33-43MaRDI QIDQ254857zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Alex Goldvard, Lavi Karp

Publication date 16 March 2016

Published in Journal of Geometry and Symmetry in Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1504.03717

zbMATH Keywords

Clifford translationGibbs vectororthogonal planesquaternionic representationsimple and double rotations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Orthogonal and unitary groups in metric geometry (51F25) Euclidean analytic geometry (51N20) Geometry of classical groups (51N30)

Abstract: We achieve compositions rules for the geometric parameters of the composed rotations, which is in a certain sense analogous to the well known Rodrigues formula. We also obtain a necessary and sufficient condition for a composition of two simple rotations in $mathbb{E}^4$ to be a simple rotation.

Review text

The authors investigate products of rotations in the Euclidian space \(\mathbb E^4\). They explain simple and double rotations. Working with real quaternions, the authors give conditions under which the product of two rotations is again a rotation. They use \textit{H. S. M. Coxeter}'s work on quaternions and reflections [Am. Math. Mon. 53, 136--146 (1946; Zbl 0063.01003)]. They also make a number of historical comments; in one of these they refer to Olinde Rodrigues' paper of 1840 on \textit{Transformation groups}.

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