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In the ordinary quaternion theory we have constructed an object
which essentially only distinguishes two types of objects the scalars and the vectors. However, we know that the vectors split into two disjoint sets — the polar vectors and the axial vectors (arising from vector products of polar vectors; often called pseudovectors) and, in three-dimensions we have also scalars and pseudoscalars.
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Ward, J.P. (1997). Complexified Quaternions. In: Quaternions and Cayley Numbers. Mathematics and Its Applications, vol 403. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5768-1_3
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