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The quaternion group has the unusual property of being Hamiltonian: Q 8 is non-abelian, but every subgroup is normal. [4] Every Hamiltonian group contains a copy of Q 8. [5] The quaternion group Q 8 and the dihedral group D 4 are the two smallest examples of a nilpotent non-abelian group.
The set of all unit quaternions forms a 3-sphere S 3 and a group (a Lie group) under multiplication, double covering the group (,) of real orthogonal 3×3 matrices of determinant 1 since two unit quaternions correspond to every rotation under the above correspondence.
The seven major dog groups in the U.S. are Herding, Hound, Non-Sporting, Sporting, Terrier, Toy and Working. Initially, when the AKC got its start in 1884, it tossed all dog breeds into either the ...
The character table does not in general determine the group up to isomorphism: for example, the quaternion group Q and the dihedral group of 8 elements, D 4, have the same character table. Brauer asked whether the character table, together with the knowledge of how the powers of elements of its conjugacy classes are distributed, determines a ...
In 1898 George Miller delineated the structure of a Hamiltonian group in terms of its order and that of its subgroups. For instance, he shows "a Hamilton group of order 2 a has 2 2a − 6 quaternion groups as subgroups". In 2005 Horvat et al [2] used this structure to count the number of Hamiltonian groups of any order n = 2 e o where o is an odd
The quaternion q can be thought of as an operator that changes β into α, by first rotating it, formerly an act of version and then changing the length of it, formerly called an act of tension. Also by definition the quotient of two vectors is equal to the numerator times the reciprocal of the denominator .
The group of units in L is the order 8 quaternion group Q = {±1, ±i, ±j, ±k}. The group of units in H is a nonabelian group of order 24 known as the binary tetrahedral group. The elements of this group include the 8 elements of Q along with the 16 quaternions {(±1 ± i ± j ± k) / 2}, where signs may be
In the quaternion group of order 8, each of the cyclic subgroups of order 4 is normal, but none of these are characteristic. However, the subgroup, {1, −1}, is characteristic, since it is the only subgroup of order 2. If n > 2 is even, the dihedral group of order 2n has 3 subgroups of index 2, all of which are normal. One of these is the ...