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So what am I talking about? An extension of the complex numbers between ℂ1 and the Quaternions.
A tricomplex number can be written as τ = {a + bi + cj | ∀(a,b,c)∈ℝ } where:
i2 = j2 = i×j = -1 = -(j×i)
Thus of course, j×i = +1
What is remarkable is that such objects are closed under muliplication and produce of a tricomplex number with its conjugate, τ×τ* = (a+bi+cj)(a-bi-cj)
= a2 + b2 + c2. You can verify this yourself using the multiplication rules I listed but I will do it in a follow up post.
Now surely there's another name for such things as it seems far too likely that someone discovered them before but if so, what exactly are they called?
Using the Cayley-Dickinson construction method as well as the properties of free groups I tried to created a Cayley table for 5-dimensional complex numbers(1 real basis and 4 imaginary bases) but it didn't work since each row and each column had redundant entries unlike the Quaternion and Octonion Cayley tables.
A tricomplex number can be written as τ = {a + bi + cj | ∀(a,b,c)∈ℝ } where:
i2 = j2 = i×j = -1 = -(j×i)
Thus of course, j×i = +1
What is remarkable is that such objects are closed under muliplication and produce of a tricomplex number with its conjugate, τ×τ* = (a+bi+cj)(a-bi-cj)
= a2 + b2 + c2. You can verify this yourself using the multiplication rules I listed but I will do it in a follow up post.
Now surely there's another name for such things as it seems far too likely that someone discovered them before but if so, what exactly are they called?
Using the Cayley-Dickinson construction method as well as the properties of free groups I tried to created a Cayley table for 5-dimensional complex numbers(1 real basis and 4 imaginary bases) but it didn't work since each row and each column had redundant entries unlike the Quaternion and Octonion Cayley tables.