Multi-variable quaternionic spectral analysis

Abstract

In this paper, we consider finite dimensional vector spaces \(\mathbb{H}^n\) over the ring \(\mathbb{H}\) of all quaternions. In particular, we are interested in certain functions acting on \(\mathbb{H}^n\), and corresponding functional equations. Our main results show that (i) all quaternions of \(\mathbb{H}\) are classified by the spectra of their realizations under representation, (ii) all vectors of \(\mathbb{H}^n\) are classified by a canonical extended setting of (i), and (iii) the usual spectral analysis on the matricial ring \(M_n(\mathbb{C})\) of all \((n \times n)\)-matrices over the complex numbers \(\mathbb{C}\) has close connections with certain "non-linear" functional equations on \(\mathbb{H}^n\) up to the classification of (ii).