The noncompact portion ofSp(4,R) via quaternions

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/41/33/335203MaRDI QIDQ3522780zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yassmin Ansari, Viswanath Ramakrishna

Publication date 4 September 2008

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0801.4402

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Linear algebraic groups over the reals, the complexes, the quaternions (20G20) Polar geometry, symplectic spaces, orthogonal spaces (51A50) Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05)

Abstract: This work provides a quaternioinc reprsentation for real symplectic matrices in dimension four, analogous to the pair of unit quaternions representation for special orthogonal matrices. In the process of finding formulae for this representation in terms of the entries of the symplectic matrix being thereby represented, it shows how to compute the polar decomposition of a symplectic matrix without any need for spectral calculation. The technique just requires the solution of a simple 2x2 linear system. The work also characterizes symplectic, positive definite matrices in dimension four, and thus can be used in applications where the non-compact part of the symplectic group in dimension four is of utility.

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