Directed Partial Orders on Complex Numbers and Quaternions over Non-Archimedean Linearly Ordered Fields

Let F be a non-archimedean linearly ordered field, and C and H be the field of complex numbers and the division algebra of quaternions over F, respectively. In this paper, a class of directed partial orders on C are constructed directly and concretely using additive subgroup of F ⁺. This class of directed partial orders includes those given in Rump and Wang (J. Algebra 400, 1–7, 2014), and Yang (J. Algebra 295(2), 452–457, 2006) as special cases and we conjecture that it covers all directed partial orders on C such that 1 > 0. It turns out that this construction also works very well on H. We note that none of these directed partial orders is a lattice order on C or H.