基于几何代数的彩色光流场计算

提出了一种新的基于几何代数的彩色光流场计算方法.从新的角度出发讨论了运用几何代数的概念来解决彩色图像序列的可行性和简便性.在几何代数域内对彩色图像序列用多重矢量表示,证明了彩色光流场分析时进行约束条件时的测量问题,通过多重矢量而非多通道的图像处理方法来表示图像连续特性,从而扩大了测量范围;然后依据物体色彩在运动过程中保持不变的原理,在几何代数域内推导了彩色图像序列的光流约束方程及其解法.结果表明,该算法能够显著提高各种情况下的彩色光流场计算能力.     

Clifford algebra geometric-multispinor particles and multivector-current gauge fields

A new class of multivector quantum mechanics is defined in which the theoretical gains over standard formalism are fully illustrated. Multiple generations of particles appear when column spinors are replaced by Clifford multivectors (matrices associated with physical geometry). New gauge fields arise from now-allowable right-side-applied transformations, independent of the usual left-sided ones. The number and group structure of the gauge generators is a function of the dimension and metric of the underlying geometric space, where constraints on a multivector Lagrangian suppress some interactions.     

Transformation matrices for the Mueller-Jones formalism

The Mueller-Jones (MJ) or pure Mueller matrix formulation has been reported by using two different matrix transformations in a condensed representation. The possibility to find other transformation matrices is explored. A complete set of unitary operators (R) is found to be closely related with the MJ matrices and with the evolution of pure states on the Poincaré sphere surface. We propose an alternative deduction for the condensed representation of the MJ matrices, obtained by using the Kronecker product operation and use of R unitary matrices as a tool to combine different Mueller matrices and changes of polarized states on the Poincarè sphere surface. Finally, it is shown explicitly that the columns of the transformation matrices are the eigenvectors of the MJ matrix associated to a non-depolarizing optical system and a corollary is established as a criterion to differentiate a Mueller matrix from an MJ matrix.     

Vectorial Pauli algebraic approach in polarization optics. I. Device and state operators

This paper inscribes on the line of the efforts (sketched in the Introduction) in elaborating theoretical approaches alternative to the traditional Jones and Mueller matrix calculi in polarization optics. The more abstract, compact and elevated forms of linear algebra are not fully exploited yet in the polarization optics. A vectorial and pure operatorial Pauli algebraic approach to the interaction between the polarized light and the polarization optical systems is given. This is the most compact, adequate and elegant calculus corresponding to the well-known geometric handling of the polarization states and their interaction with the polarization devices on the Poincaré sphere. In this first paper, we deduce the Pauli algebraic vectorial forms of the operators corresponding to the orthogonal and nonorthogonal polarization devices and to all the states of light polarization. In the next paper we shall give the vectorial Pauli algebraic analysis of the interaction between the whole hierarchy of these devices and the various forms of polarized light.     

Vectorial Pauli algebraic approach in polarization optics. II. Interaction of light with the canonical polarization devices

A theoretical approach to the interaction between polarized light and polarization devices, based on the vectorial and pure operatorial form of the Pauli algebra, is presented. In the first part of the paper we have established the vectorial Pauli-algebraic forms of the operators corresponding to various polarization devices and states of light polarization. In this second part we give the vectorial Pauli-algebraic treatment of the interaction between the canonical polarization devices and the various forms of light polarization. Unlike the standard (Jones and Mueller) approaches, this formalism does not appeal to any matrix representation of the involved operators. This approach establishes a bridge between the Hilbert space of the density operators of the polarization states and the Poincaré space of their geometric representations and gives a rigorous justification of the handling of the interactions between the polarization states and polarization systems on the Poincaré sphere and in the Poincaré ball. In such an approach, unlike the standard ones, the three relevant quantities that characterize the interaction - the gain, the Poincaré vector of the outgoing light and its degree of polarization - result straightforwardly, in block. A generalized form of Malus’ law, for any dichroic device and partially polarized light is also obtained this way.     

On generalized Clifford groups. I

It is shown that using the basis elements of the generalized Clifford algebra C^m_n we can construct a group G?^m_n called the generalized Clifford group (G.C.G.) which is a generalization of the Dirac group of the 16 Dirac matrices and their negative counterparts. We have studied the irreducible representations of G.C.G. and we have found the connection with the group of linear transformations leaving invariant the expression $\text{∑}\text{i=1}\text{n}\text{(x}{}^{\mathrm{i}}\text{)}{}^{\mathrm{m}}$ for m>2.     

Peirce, Clifford, and Quantum Theory

Beginning in 1870 Charles Sanders Peirce published a series of papers on a logic of relations, which corresponded to a linear associative algebra. This algebra is related by a linear transformation to quaternions and thus to the C(3, 0) algebra of William Kingdon Clifford. This Clifford algebra contains the Pauli matrices and so constitutes an operator basis for the nonrelativistic quantum theory of spin one-half particles. A further unification is achieved by taking the wave functions themselves to be 2 × 2 matrices which are Peirce logical operators and also elements of the Clifford algebra. Thus we have discovered a direct path from the Peirce logic to quantum theory. A diagrammatic method follows from the Peirce/Clifford algebraic approach and is suitable for describing particle interactions.     

Dealing depolarization of light in Mueller matrices with scalar metrics

A number of depolarization metrics is applied to a series of reported Mueller matrices. It is shown the depolarization scalar metric Q(M) provides consistent results with the reported scalar metrics like the depolarization index and the degree of polarization. It is shown Q(M) provides additional information about the internal nature of the Mueller matrices, specifically when the upper limit, 3, is reached. It is also shown the depolarization index and the Q(M) metric are only necessary but not sufficient conditions for the physical realizability of Mueller matrices. Finally, Q(M) is proven to be consistent in all cases studied here.     

The Extended Relativity Theory in Born-Clifford Phase Spaces with a Lower and Upper Length Scales and Clifford Group Geometric Unification

We construct the Extended Relativity Theory in Born-Clifford-Phase spaces with an upper R and lower length λ scales (infrared/ultraviolet cutoff). The invariance symmetry leads naturally to the real Clifford algebra Cl (2, 6, R) and complexified Clifford Cl_C (4) algebra related to Twistors. A unified theory of all Noncommutative branes in Clifford-spaces is developed based on the Moyal-Yang star product deformation quantization whose deformation parameter involves the lower/upper scale . Previous work led us to show from first principles why the observed value of the vacuum energy density (cosmological constant) is given by a geometric mean relationship , and can be obtained when the infrared scale R is set to be of the order of the present value of the Hubble radius. We proceed with an extensive review of Smith’s 8D model based on the Clifford algebra Cl (1, 7) that reproduces at low energies the physics of the Standard Model and Gravity, including the derivation of all the coupling constants, particle masses, mixing angles, ....with high precision. Geometric actions are presented like the Clifford-Space extension of Maxwell’s Electrodynamics, and Brandt’s action related to the 8D spacetime tangent-bundle involving coordinates and velocities (Finsler geometries). Finally we outline the reasons why a Clifford-Space Geometric Unification of all forces is a very reasonable avenue to consider and propose an Einstein-Hilbert type action in Clifford-Phase spaces (associated with the 8D Phase space) as a Unified Field theory action candidate that should reproduce the physics of the Standard Model plus Gravity in the low energy limit.     

A New Quantum Analog of the Brauer Algebra

We introduce a new algebra depending on two nonzero complex parameters z and q such that its specialization at z=q ⁿ and q=1 coincides the Brauer algebra. We show that the action of the new algebra commutes with the representation of the twisted deformation of the enveloping algebra U(o _n) in the tensor power of the vector representation.     

Extension of the Virasoro and Neveu-Schwarz Algebras and Generalized Sturm-Liouville Operators

We consider the universal central extension of the Lie algebra Vect(S ¹) C(S ¹). The coadjoint representation of thisLie algebra has a natural geometric interpretation by matrix analogues ofthe Sturm –Liouville operators. This approach leads to new Liesuperalgebras generalizing the well-known Neveu –Schwarz algebra.     

On the Dirac oscillator

In the present work we obtain a new representation for the Dirac oscillator based on the Clifford algebra C?₇. The symmetry breaking and the energy eigenvalues for our model of the Dirac oscillator are studied in the non-relativistic limit.     

Reply to da Rocha and Rodrigues' comments on the orientation congruent algebra and twisted forms in electrodynamics

The recent claim by da Rocha and Rodrigues that the nonassociative orientation congruent algebra (???? algebra) and native Clifford algebra are incompatible with the Clifford bundle approach is false. The new native Clifford bundle approach, in fact, subsumes the ordinary Clifford bundle one. Associativity is an unnecessarily too strong a requirement for physical applications. Consequently, we obtain a new principle of nonassociative irrelevance for physically meaningful formulas. In addition, the adoption of formalisms that respect the native representation of twisted (or odd) objects and physical quantities is required for the advancement of mathematics, physics, and engineering because they allow equations to be written in sign‐invariant form. This perspective simplifies the analysis of, resolves questions about, and ends needless controversies over the signs, orientations, and parities of physical quantities.     

Embedding of Dynamical Symmetry Groups U(1, 1) and U(2) of a Free Particle on AdS 2 and S 2 into Parasupersymmetry Algebra

Using two different types of the laddering equations realized simultaneously by the associated Gegenbauer functions, we show that all quantum states corresponding to the motion of a free particle on AdS ₂ and S ² are splitted into infinite direct sums of infinite-and finite-dimensional Hilbert subspaces which represent Lie algebras u(1, 1) and u(2) with infinite- and finite-fold degeneracies, respectively. In addition, it is shown that the representation bases of Lie algebras with rank 1, i.e., gl(2, C), realize the representation of nonunitary parasupersymmetry algebra of arbitrary order. The realization of the representation of parasupersymmetry algebra by the Hilbert subspaces which describe the motion of a free particle on AdS ₂ and S ² with the dynamical symmetry groups U(1, 1) and U(2) are concluded as well.     

THE ADJOINT REPRESENTATION OF QUANTUM ALGEBRA Uq(sl(2))

Starting from any representation of the Lie algebra on the finite dimensional vector space V we can construct the representation on the space Aut(V). These representations are of the type of ad. That is one of the reasons, why it is important to study the adjoint representation of the Lie algebra on the universal enveloping algebra U(). A similar situation is for the quantum groups U_q(). In this paper, we study the adjoint representation for the simplest quantum algebra U_q(sl(2)) in the case that q is not a root of unity.     

Idempotents of Clifford Algebras

A classification of idempotents of Clifford algebras C ^p,q is presented. It is shown that using isomorphisms between Clifford algebras C ^p,q and appropriate matrix rings, it is possible to classify idempotents in any Clifford algebra into continuous families. These families include primitive idempotents used to generate minimal one-sided ideals in Clifford algebras. Some low-dimensional examples are discussed.     

Radiactiv corrections to deeply virtual compton scattering

The non-commuting matrix elements of matrices from the quantum group GL _q(2;C) with q = being the n-th root of unity are given a representation as operators in Hilbert space with help of C ₄ ⁽ⁿ⁾ generalized Clifford algebra generators.The case of q C, |q| = 1 is treated parallelly.