Volume 36, pp. 9-16, 2009-2010.

Polynomials and Vandermonde matrices over the field of quaternions

Gerhard Opfer

Abstract

It is known that the space of real valued, continuous functions C(B) over a multidimensional compact domain BRk,k2 does not admit Haar spaces, which means that interpolation problems in finite dimensional subspaces V of C(B) may not have a solutions in C(B). The corresponding standard short and elegant proof does not apply to complex valued functions over BC. Nevertheless, in this situation Haar spaces VC(B) exist. We are concerned here with the case of quaternionic valued, continuous functions C(B) where BH and V denotes the skew field of quaternions. Again, the proof is not applicable. However, we show that the interpolation problem is not unisolvent, by constructing quaternionic entries for a Vandermonde matrix V such that V will be singular for all orders n>2. In addition, there is a section on the exclusion and inclusion of all zeros in certain balls in H for general quaternionic polynomials.

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Key words

Quaternionic interpolation polynomials, Vandermonde matrix in quaternions, location of zeros of quaternionic polynomials

AMS subject classifications

11R52, 12E15, 12Y05, 65D05

Links to the cited ETNA articles

[8] Vol. 26 (2007), pp. 82-102 Drahoslava Janovská and Gerhard Opfer: Computing quaternionic roots by Newton's method

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