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The BMV-conjecture over quaternions and octonions

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This paper investigates generalizations of the BMV-conjecture for quaternionic and octonionic matrices. For quaternions the correctness of the formulation is shown as well as its equivalence to the original conjecture for complex matrices. General properties of octonions and Hermitian matrices over them are examined for the BMV-conjecture formulation over octonions.

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    A. S. Smirnov

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Translated from Fundamentalnaya i Prikladnaya Matematika, Vol. 17, No. 6, pp. 185–222, 2011/12.

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Smirnov, A.S. The BMV-conjecture over quaternions and octonions. J Math Sci 193, 775–801 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10958-013-1497-0

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