Classification of pairs of rotations in finite-dimensional Euclidean space

DOI10.1007/S10468-009-9156-3MaRDI QIDQ838985zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Erik Darpö

Publication date 1 September 2009

Published in Algebras and Representation Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0802.2767

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Canonical forms, reductions, classification (15A21) Hermitian, skew-Hermitian, and related matrices (15B57) Representations of quivers and partially ordered sets (16G20) Valued algebras (17A80)

Abstract: A rotation in a Euclidean space V is an orthogonal map on V which acts locally as a plane rotation with some fixed angle. We give a classification of all pairs of rotations in finite-dimensional Euclidean space, up to simultaneous conjugation with orthogonal maps.

Review text

The well-known structure theorem for orthogonal operators provides complete information about the behavior of a given orthogonal operator on a finite-dimensional Euclidean space. The main result of this paper is a corresponding picture for pairs of rotations in a finite-dimensional Euclidean space, i.e. a classification of all representations of the real algebra with two generators, given by pairs of rotations. The author's interest in rotational representations originates in the theory of real division algebras. The above classification plays an important role in that of the 8-dimensional absolute valued algebras with a nonzero central idempotent or a one-sided unity.

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