Timeline for What rings/groups have interesting quaternionic representations?
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| Mar 9, 2010 at 23:38 | vote | accept | Greg Muller | ||
| Mar 9, 2010 at 4:24 | comment | added | Noah Snyder | Fair enough. So what's the right way to fix it? If I take the complex symplectic group then it has a quaternionic representation. So what's going on, is Sp(2n,C) something like GL(n, H)? | |
| Mar 9, 2010 at 1:31 | comment | added | Ben Webster♦ | I don't think it's really accurate to say the symplectic Lie group can also be realized as a unitary group over the quaternions. There's a real form of the symplectic group which is the unitary matrices over the quaternions, but "symplectic group" has a meaning and that is not it. | |
| Mar 8, 2010 at 18:30 | history | edited | Noah Snyder | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Mar 8, 2010 at 18:15 | history | answered | Noah Snyder | CC BY-SA 2.5 |