An Iterative Method for Quaternionic Linear Equations

By the real representation of the quaternionic matrix,
an iterative method for quaternionic linear equations Ax = b is
proposed. Then the convergence conditions are obtained. At last, a
numerical example is given to illustrate the efficiency of this method.

• Bin Yu
• Minghui Wang
• Juntao Zhang

• Quaternionic linear equations
• Real representation
• Iterative algorithm.

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