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 Advances in Applied Clifford Algebras   [SJR: 0.319]   [H-I: 15]   [3 followers]  Follow         Hybrid journal (It can contain Open Access articles)    ISSN (Print) 1661-4909 - ISSN (Online) 0188-7009    Published by Springer-Verlag  [2352 journals]
• Object Detection in Point Clouds Using Conformal Geometric Algebra
• Authors: Aksel Sveier; Adam Leon Kleppe; Lars Tingelstad; Olav Egeland
Pages: 1961 - 1976
Abstract: Abstract This paper presents an approach for detecting primitive geometric objects in point clouds captured from 3D cameras. Primitive objects are objects that are well defined with parameters and mathematical relations, such as lines, spheres and ellipsoids. RANSAC, a robust parameter estimator that classifies and neglects outliers, is used for object detection. The primitives considered are modeled, filtered and fitted using the conformal model of geometric algebra. Methods for detecting planes, spheres and cylinders are suggested. Least squares fitting of spheres and planes to point data are done analytically with conformal geometric algebra, while a cylinder is fitted by defining a nonlinear cost function which is optimized using a nonlinear least squares solver. Furthermore, the suggested object detection scheme is combined with an octree sampling strategy that results in fast detection of multiple primitive objects in point clouds.
PubDate: 2017-09-01
DOI: 10.1007/s00006-017-0759-1
Issue No: Vol. 27, No. 3 (2017)

• Practical Geometric Modeling Using Geometric Algebra Motors
• Authors: Mauricio Cele Lopez Belon; Dietmar Hildenbrand
Pages: 2019 - 2033
Abstract: Abstract The usage of Geometric Algebra motors instead of Euclidean vectors for describing the position and orientation of points on a surface has promising applications in Computer Science and Engineering. Common geometric transformations, such as rotations and translations of Euclidean points, are also applicable to motors. However, encoding vertex positions and orientations as motors adds the capability of computing motor interpolation on surfaces. Thanks to that, general curves and surfaces can be generated by a motor interpolation process using different basis functions and parameterizations. In applications, the generated surfaces can be visually manipulated and deformed in a predictable way by changing the motors. In this paper we look inside the theory behind those applications as well as practical details on how Geometric Algebra algorithms can be computed efficiently. We show that geometric deformations can be computed at interactive rates on surface models with millions of vertices using the GPU.
PubDate: 2017-09-01
DOI: 10.1007/s00006-017-0777-z
Issue No: Vol. 27, No. 3 (2017)

• Some Ultraspheroidal Monogenic Clifford Gegenbauer Jacobi Polynomials and
Associated Wavelets
• Authors: Sabrine Arfaoui; Anouar Ben Mabrouk
Pages: 2287 - 2306
Abstract: Abstract In the present paper, new classes of wavelet functions are presented in the framework of Clifford analysis. Firstly, some classes of orthogonal polynomials are provided based on 2-parameters weight functions. Such classes englobe the well known ones of Jacobi and Gegenbauer polynomials when relaxing one of the parameters. The discovered polynomial sets are next applied to introduce new wavelet functions. Reconstruction formula as well as Fourier-Plancherel rules have been proved.
PubDate: 2017-09-01
DOI: 10.1007/s00006-017-0788-9
Issue No: Vol. 27, No. 3 (2017)

• Bicomplex Harmonic and Isotonic Oscillators: The Excited States
• Authors: Abhijit Banerjee
Pages: 2321 - 2332
Abstract: Abstract We investigate the complete analytical solutions of quantum mechanical harmonic and isotonic oscillators formulated in the commutative ring of bicomplex numbers. We obtain the explicit closed form expressions for the excited eigenstates and corresponding energy eigenvalues associated with the harmonic and isotonic oscillator potentials by extending the formalism adopted in Banerjee (Ann Phys 377:493, 2017) recently to find the analytical closed form solutions for ground states.
PubDate: 2017-09-01
DOI: 10.1007/s00006-017-0772-4
Issue No: Vol. 27, No. 3 (2017)

• Generalizations of Schwarzschild and (Anti) de Sitter Metrics in Clifford
Spaces
• Authors: Carlos Castro
Pages: 2393 - 2405
Abstract: Abstract After a very brief introduction to generalized gravity in Clifford spaces (C-spaces), generalized metric solutions to the C-space gravitational field equations are found, and inspired from the (Anti) de Sitter metric solutions to Einstein’s field equations with a cosmological constant in ordinary spacetimes. C-space analogs of static spherically symmetric metrics solutions are constructed. Concluding remarks are devoted to a thorough discussion about Areal metrics, Kawaguchi–Finsler Geometry, Strings, and plausible novel physical implications of C-space Relativity theory.
PubDate: 2017-09-01
DOI: 10.1007/s00006-017-0763-5
Issue No: Vol. 27, No. 3 (2017)

• Uncertainty Principles for the Clifford–Fourier Transform
• Authors: Jamel El Kamel; Rim Jday
Pages: 2429 - 2443
Abstract: Abstract In this paper, we establish analogues of Hardy’s and Miyachi’s theorems for the Clifford–Fourier transform.
PubDate: 2017-09-01
DOI: 10.1007/s00006-017-0791-1
Issue No: Vol. 27, No. 3 (2017)

• A Note on Evolution of Curves in the Minkowski Spaces
• Authors: Önder Gökmen Yıldız; Murat Tosun
Pages: 2873 - 2884
Abstract: Abstract In this paper, we study the evolution of non-null curve in n-dimensional Minkowski Space. We express evolution equation of the Frenet frame by matrix equation. We obtain integrability conditions for the evolutions. Finally, we give examples of evolutions.
PubDate: 2017-09-01
DOI: 10.1007/s00006-017-0760-8
Issue No: Vol. 27, No. 3 (2017)

• Erratum to: Some Matrix Representations of Fibonacci Quaternions and
Octonions
• Authors: Serpil Halici; Adnan Karataş
Pages: 2899 - 2900
PubDate: 2017-09-01
DOI: 10.1007/s00006-017-0792-0
Issue No: Vol. 27, No. 3 (2017)

• General Dynamics of Spinors
• Authors: Luca Fabbri
Abstract: Abstract In this paper, we consider a general twisted-curved space-time hosting Dirac spinors and we take into account the Lorentz covariant polar decomposition of the Dirac spinor field: the corresponding decomposition of the Dirac spinor field equation leads to a set of field equations that are real and where spinorial components have disappeared while still maintaining Lorentz covariance. We will see that the Dirac spinor will contain two real scalar degrees of freedom, the module and the so-called Yvon–Takabayashi angle, and we will display their field equations. This will permit us to study the coupling of curvature and torsion respectively to the module and the YT angle.
PubDate: 2017-10-16
DOI: 10.1007/s00006-017-0816-9

• Novel Sampling Formulas Associated with Quaternionic Prolate Spheroidal
Wave functions
• Authors: Dong Cheng; Kit Ian Kou
Abstract: Abstract The Whittaker–Shannon–Kotel’nikov (WSK) sampling theorem provides a reconstruction formula for the bandlimited signals. In this paper, a novel kind of the WSK sampling theorem is established by using the theory of quaternion reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces. This generalization is employed to obtain the novel sampling formulas for the bandlimited quaternion-valued signals. A special case of our result is to show that the 2D generalized prolate spheroidal wave signals obtained by Slepian can be used to achieve a sampling series of cube-bandlimited signals. The solutions of energy concentration problems in quaternion Fourier transform are also investigated.
PubDate: 2017-10-11
DOI: 10.1007/s00006-017-0815-x

• Free Fermions on a Piecewise Linear Four-Manifold. II: Pachner Moves
• Authors: I. G. Korepanov
Abstract: Abstract This is the second in a series of papers where we construct an invariant of a four-dimensional piecewise linear manifold M with a given middle cohomology class $$h\in H^{2}(M,\mathbb C)$$ . This invariant is the square root of the torsion of unusual chain complex introduced in Part I of our work, multiplied by a correcting factor. Here we find this factor by studying the behavior of our construction under all four-dimensional Pachner moves, and show that it can be represented in a multiplicative form: a product of same-type multipliers over all 2-faces, multiplied by a product of same-type multipliers over all pentachora.
PubDate: 2017-10-03
DOI: 10.1007/s00006-017-0811-1

• On an Intrinsically Local Gauge Symmetric $$\mathbf {SU(3)}$$ SU ( 3 )
Field Theory for Quantum Chromodynamics
• Authors: Brian Jonathan Wolk
Abstract: Abstract The $$SU(3)_{c}$$ gauge theory for eight massless vector gauge fields is assimilated into the formalism which generated the intrinsic local gauge invariant U(1) and $$SU(2)_{L}$$ theories [30, 31], thus establishing the theoretical structure for intrinsically local gauge invariant quantum chromodynamics. Use is made of both the standard and split algebra of the octonions, the last of the Hurwitz algebras, in devising the technology. Numerous interesting results are obtained, including an explanation of the inherently non-chiral nature of the strong and electromagnetic interactions in contradistinction to the weak interaction. The formalism’s novelty and universality compels contemplation of its potential ability to assimilate the gravitational interaction as well.
PubDate: 2017-09-22
DOI: 10.1007/s00006-017-0812-0

• Investigation of Dual-Complex Fibonacci, Dual-Complex Lucas Numbers and
Their Properties
• Authors: Mehmet Ali Güngör; Ayşe Zeynep Azak
Abstract: Abstract In this study, we define the dual complex Fibonacci and Lucas numbers. We give the generating functions and Binet formulas for these numbers. Moreover, the well-known properties e.g. Cassini and Catalan identities have been obtained for these numbers.
PubDate: 2017-09-15
DOI: 10.1007/s00006-017-0813-z

• A New $$\frac{1}{2}$$ 1 2 -Ricci Type Formula on the Spinor Bundle and
Applications
• Authors: Ioannis Chrysikos
Abstract: Abstract Consider a Riemannian spin manifold $$(M^{n}, g)$$ $$(n\ge 3)$$ endowed with a non-trivial 3-form $$T\in \Lambda ^{3}T^{*}M$$ , such that $$\nabla ^{c}T=0$$ , where $$\nabla ^{c}:=\nabla ^{g}+\frac{1}{2}T$$ is the metric connection with skew-torsion T. In this note we introduce a generalized $$\frac{1}{2}$$ -Ricci type formula for the spinorial action of the Ricci endomorphism $${{\mathrm{Ric}}}^{s}(X)$$ , induced by the one-parameter family of metric connections $$\nabla ^{s}:=\nabla ^{g}+2sT$$ . This new identity extends a result described by Th. Friedrich and E. C. Kim, about the action of the Riemannian Ricci endomorphism on spinor fields, and allows us to present a series of applications. For example, we describe a new alternative proof of the generalized Schrödinger–Lichnerowicz formula related to the square of the Dirac operator $$D^{s}$$ , induced by $$\nabla ^{s}$$ , under the condition $$\nabla ^{c}T=0$$ . In the same case, we provide integrability conditions for $$\nabla ^{s}$$ -parallel spinors, $$\nabla ^{c}$$ -parallel spinors and twistor spinors with torsion. We illustrate our conclusions for some non-integrable structures satisfying our assumptions, e.g. Sasakian manifolds, nearly Kähler manifolds and nearly parallel $$\hbox {G}_2$$ -manifolds, in dimensions 5, 6 and 7, respectively.
PubDate: 2017-09-12
DOI: 10.1007/s00006-017-0810-2

• On k -Analytic Functions of an Octonionic Variable
• Authors: Jianquan Liao; Xingmin Li
Abstract: Abstract A theory of k-analytic functions on octonions is established. The Cauchy integral formulas, Taylor series and Laurent series for the k-analytic functions are given. Moreover, we obtain the orthogonality relations for the basis of k-analytic functions.
PubDate: 2017-09-08
DOI: 10.1007/s00006-017-0807-x

• Uncertainty Principle and Phase–Amplitude Analysis of Signals on the
Unit Sphere
• Authors: Pei Dang; Tao Qian; Qiuhui Chen
Abstract: Abstract This paper is devoted to studying uncertainty principle of Heisenberg type for signals on the unit sphere in the Clifford algebra setting. In the Clifford algebra setting we propose two forms of uncertainty principle for spherical signals, of which both correspond to the strongest form of uncertainty principle for periodic signals. The lower-bounds of the proven uncertainty principles are in terms of a scalar-valued phase derivative.
PubDate: 2017-09-06
DOI: 10.1007/s00006-017-0808-9

• Poincaré–Bertrand and Hilbert formulas for the
Cauchy–Cimmino singular integrals
• Authors: Juan Bory Reyes; Ricardo Abreu Blaya; Marco Antonio Pérez-de la Rosa; Baruch Schneider
Abstract: Abstract The Cimmino system offers a natural and elegant generalization to four-dimensional case of the Cauchy–Riemann system of first order complex partial differential equations. Recently, it has been proved that many facts from the holomorphic function theory have their extensions onto the Cimmino system theory. In the present work a Poincaré–Bertrand formula related to the Cauchy–Cimmino singular integrals over piecewise Lyapunov surfaces in $$\mathbb {R}^4$$ is derived with recourse to arguments involving quaternionic analysis. Furthermore, this paper obtains some analogues of the Hilbert formulas on the unit 3-sphere and on the 3-dimensional space for the theory of Cimmino system.
PubDate: 2017-09-06
DOI: 10.1007/s00006-017-0809-8

• On Hermitian Solutions of the Split Quaternion Matrix Equation
$$AXB+CXD=E$$ A X B + C X D = E
• Authors: Shi-Fang Yuan; Qing-Wen Wang; Yi-Bin Yu; Yong Tian
Abstract: Abstract In this paper, we discuss Hermitian solutions of split quaternion matrix equation $$AXB+CXD=E,$$ where X is an unknown split quaternion Hermitian matrix, and A, B, C, D, E are known split quaternion matrices with suitable size. The objective of this paper is to establish a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of a solution and a solution formulas. Moreover, we provide numerical algorithms and numerical examples to exemplify the results.
PubDate: 2017-09-02
DOI: 10.1007/s00006-017-0806-y

• Preface for Special Issue on Geometric Algebra in Computer Science and
Engineering
• Authors: Dietmar Hildenbrand; Eckhard Hitzer; George Papagiannakis
PubDate: 2017-07-15
DOI: 10.1007/s00006-017-0799-6

• A New Polar Representation for Split and Dual Split Quaternions
• Authors: Ali Atasoy; Erhan Ata; Yusuf Yayli; Yasemin Kemer
Abstract: Abstract We present a new different polar representation of split and dual split quaternions inspired by the Cayley–Dickson representation. In this new polar form representation, a split quaternion is represented by a pair of complex numbers, and a dual split quaternion is represented by a pair of dual complex numbers as in the Cayley–Dickson form. Here, in a split quaternion these two complex numbers are a complex modulus and a complex argument while in a dual split quaternion two dual complex numbers are a dual complex modulus and a dual complex argument. The modulus and argument are calculated from an arbitrary split quaternion in Cayley–Dickson form. Also, the dual modulus and dual argument are calculated from an arbitrary dual split quaternion in Cayley–Dickson form. By the help of polar representation for a dual split quaternion, we show that a Lorentzian screw operator can be written as product of two Lorentzian screw operators. One of these operators is in the two-dimensional space produced by 1 and i vectors. The other is in the three-dimensional space generated by 1, j and k vectors. Thus, an operator in a four-dimensional space is expressed by means of two operators in two and three-dimensional spaces. Here, vector 1 is in the intersection of these spaces.
PubDate: 2017-07-03
DOI: 10.1007/s00006-017-0797-8

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