Electromagnetic Waves Described with the Complex Quaternion

摘要：

　　J.C.Maxwell applied the quaternion analysis and the vector terminology to depict the electromagnetic theory.Nowadays the scholars can use the complex quaternion to study the electromagnetic feature,including the Maxwells equations and the current continuity equation etc.Meanwhile it is able to describe the gravitational theory with the complex quaternion.On the basis of these studies,the paper separates the complex octonion into two components,the complex quaternion and the complex S-quaternion.The complex quaternion is suitable to describe the gravitational theory,while the complex S-quaternion is proper to depict the electromagnetic theory.Further the paper can apply the complex quaternion to describe the wave equation of gravitational field,and use the complex S-quaternion to depict the wave equation of electromagnetic field.The result reveals that the complex octonion is suitable to describe simultaneously the wave features of electromagnetic and gravitational fields.

作者: Zi-Hua Weng

作者单位: School of Physics and Mechanical & Electrical Engineering,Xiamen University,Xiamen 361005,China

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium 2014(2014年电磁学研究新进展学术研讨会)

会议地点: 广州

会议语种:英文

页码: 776-780

在线出版日期: 2014-08-01（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）