Möbius gyrogroups: a Clifford algebra approach

• Autor(a) principal: Ferreira, Milton
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Outros Autores: Ren, G.
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositórios Científicos de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.8/3817
• topic: Möbius gyrogroups; Möbius projectors; Quotient Möbius gyrogroups; Möbius fiber bundles

Using the Clifford algebra formalism we study the Möbius gyrogroup of the ball of radius t of the paravector space, where V is a finite-dimensional real vector space. We characterize all the gyro-subgroups of the Möbius gyrogroup and we construct left and right factorizations with respect to an arbitrary gyro-subgroup for the paravector ball. The geometric and algebraic properties of the equivalence classes are investigated. We show that the equivalence classes locate in a k-dimensional sphere, where k is the dimension of the gyro-subgroup, and the resulting quotient spaces are again Möbius gyrogroups. With the algebraic structure of the factorizations, we study the sections of Möbius fiber bundles inherited by the Möbius projectors.