Generalized quaternions and spacetime symmetries

DOI10.1063/1.525223zbMath0512.22011MaRDI QIDQ4750887

Robert T. Jantzen

Publication date: 1982

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

Full work available at URL: https://semanticscholar.org/paper/693e1c78cfbc5d4abad1bc9ca9316f28ec796eac

zbMATH Keywords

Lie algebra; universal enveloping algebra; Bianchi types; generalized quaternion algebra; associative composition algebras; cosmological solution of the Einstein field equations; manifolds of spacetime; tracefree adjoint representations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

17B35: Universal enveloping (super)algebras

83F05: Relativistic cosmology

17B25: Exceptional (super)algebras

22E60: Lie algebras of Lie groups

20G20: Linear algebraic groups over the reals, the complexes, the quaternions

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Generalized elliptical quaternions with some applications, The Clifford algebra of differential forms, Quadratic alternative algebras, The metric of a space and quadratic algebras

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