SIGMA 3 (2007), 088, 10 pages      arXiv:0709.1198      https://doi.org/10.3842/SIGMA.2007.088
Contribution to the Proceedings of the 3-rd Microconference Analytic and Algebraic Methods III

Complex Projection of Quasianti-Hermitian Quaternionic Hamiltonian Dynamics

Giuseppe Scolarici
Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università del Salento, and INFN, Sezione di Lecce, I-73100 Lecce, Italy

Received July 05, 2007, in final form September 03, 2007; Published online September 08, 2007

Abstract
We characterize the subclass of quasianti-Hermitian quaternionic Hamiltonian dynamics such that their complex projections are one-parameter semigroup dynamics in the space of complex quasi-Hermitian density matrices. As an example, the complex projection of a spin-½ system in a constant quasianti-Hermitian quaternionic potential is considered.

Key words: pseudo-Hermitian Hamiltonians; quaternions.

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