This paper extends the $*$-product from slice analysis to weakly slice analysis in several quaternionic variables, focusing on non-axially symmetric domains. It diverges from traditional applications in axially symmetric domains to address slice regularity in more complicated cases. The approach involves redefining the $*$-product for path-slice functions, borrowing techniques from strongly slice analysis. Key to this work is the introduction of relative stem-preserving set pairs and real-path-connected sets, which help establish a direct link between path-slice functions and their stem functions. The study culminates in conditions under which weakly slice regular functions form an algebra in specific slice domains, broadening the scope of slice analysis.
The functions studied in the paper are quaternion-valued functions of a quaternionic variable. It is show that the left slice regular functions and right slice regular functions are related by a particular involution. The relation between left slice regular functions, right slice regular functions and intrinsic regular functions is revealed. The classical Laplace transform can be naturally generalized to quaternions in two different ways, which transform a quaternion-valued function of a real variable to a left or right slice regular quaternion-valued function of a quaternionic variable. The u…
In this paper we study Hankel operators in the quaternionic setting. In particular we prove that they can be exploited to measure the $L^{\infty}$ distance of a slice $L^{\infty}$ function from the space of bounded slice regular functions.
We study the $L^p$ norm of the orthogonal projection from the space of quaternion valued $L^2$ functions to the closed subspace of slice $L^2$ functions.
A slice regular analogue of the Malmquist-Takenaka system is investigated. It is proved that they form a complete orthonormal system in the quaternionic Hardy spaces of the unit ball. The properties of associated projection operator are studied. Key Words and Phrases: Functions of hypercomplex variables, quaternionic Hardy spaces, series expansions, interpolation, approximation by rational functions, quaternionic Malmquist-Takenaka system
In this paper, we introduce the quaternionic slice polyanalytic functions and we prove some of their properties. Then, we apply the obtained results to begin the study of the quaternionic Fock and Bergman spaces in this new setting. In particular, we give explicit expressions of their reproducing kernels.
The papers \cite{O1,O2} are the first works to apply the theory of fiber bundles in the study of the quaternionic slice regular functions. The main goal of the present work is to extend the results given in \cite{O1}, where the quaternionic right linear space of quaternionic slice regular functions was presented as the base space of a fiber bundle. When the quaternionic right linear space of quaternionic slice regular functions is associated to certain domains then this paper shows that the elements of total space, given in \cite{O1}, are defined from a pair of harmonic functions and a pair of…
In this paper we prove two Bloch type theorems for quaternionic slice regular functions. We first discuss the injective and covering properties of some classes of slice regular functions from slice regular Bloch spaces and slice regular Bergman spaces, respectively. And then we show that there exits a universal ball contained in the image of the open unit ball $\mathbb{B}$ in quaternions $\mathbb{H}$ through the slice regular rotation $\widetilde{f}_{u}$ of each slice regular function $f:\overline{\mathbb{B}}\rightarrow \mathbb{H}$ with $f'(0)=1$ for some $u\in \partial\mathbb{B}$.
The theory of quaternionic slice regular functions was introduced in 2006 and successfully developed for about a decade over symmetric slice domains, which appeared to be the natural setting for their study. Some recent articles paved the way for a further development of the theory: namely, the study of slice regular functions on slice domains that are not necessarily symmetric. The present work is a panorama of geometric function theory in this new context, where new phenomena appear. For instance, the nature of the zero sets can be drastically different than in the symmetric case. The work i…
The purpose of this paper is twofold. One is to enrich from a geometrical point of view the theory of octonionic slice regular functions. We first prove a boundary Schwarz lemma for slice regular self-mappings of the open unit ball of the octonionic space. As applications, we obtain two Landau-Toeplitz type theorems for slice regular functions with respect to regular diameter and slice diameter respectively, together with a Cauchy type estimate. Along with these results, we introduce some new and useful ideas, which also allow to prove the minimum principle and one version of the open mapping …
The quaternionic valued functions of a quaternionic variable, often referred to as slice regular functions has been studied extensively due to the large number of generali\-zed results of the theory of one complex variable, see \cite{cgs,CSS,GSC,GS2,gssbook,gp,gpr,GS} and the references given there. Recently, several global properties of these functions has been found of the study of a differential operator, see \cite{GlobalOp,GP_2, G, GG1,GG2}. Particularly, given a structural set $ψ$ the Borel-Pompieu formula induced by the operator ${}^ψG$ and its consequences in the slice regular function …
After their introduction in 2006, quaternionic slice regular functions have mostly been studied over domains that are symmetric with respect to the real axis. This choice was motivated by some foundational results published in 2009, such as the Representation Formula for axially symmetric domains. The present work studies slice regular functions over domains that are not axially symmetric, partly correcting the hypotheses of some previously published results. In particular, this work includes a Local Representation Formula valid without the symmetry hypothesis. Moreover, it determines a class …
The recent definition of slice regular function of several quaternionic variables suggests a new notion of quaternionic manifold. We give the definition of quaternionic regular manifold, as a space locally modeled on $\mathbb{H}^n$, in a slice regular sense. We exhibit some significant classes of examples, including manifolds which carry a quaternionic affine structure.
In this paper we characterize the closed invariant subspaces for the ($*$-)multiplier operator of the quaternionic space of slice $L^2$ functions. As a consequence, we obtain the inner-outer factorization theorem for the quaternionic Hardy space on the unit ball and we provide a characterization of quaternionic outer functions in terms of cyclicity.
Slice analysis is a generalization of the theory of holomorphic functions of one complex variable to quaternions. Among the new phenomena which appear in this context, there is the fact that the convergence domain of $f(q)=Σ_{n\in\mathbb{N}}(q-p)^{*n} a_n$, given by a $σ$-ball $Σ(p,r)$, is not open in $\mathbb{H}$ unless $p\in\mathbb{R}$. This motivates us to investigate, in this article, what is a natural topology for slice regular functions. It turns out that the natural topology is the so-called slice topology, which is different from the Euclidean topology and nicely adapts to the slice st…
In this paper we prove a new representation formula for slice regular functions, which shows that the value of a slice regular function $f$ at a point $q=x+yI$ can be recovered by the values of $f$ at the points $q+yJ$ and $q+yK$ for any choice of imaginary units $I, J, K.$ This result allows us to extend the known properties of slice regular functions defined on balls centered on the real axis to a much larger class of domains, called axially symmetric domains. We show, in particular, that axially symmetric domains play, for slice regular functions, the role played by domains of holomorphy fo…
Inspired from the Cholewinski approach see [5], we investigate a family of Fock spaces in the quaternionic slice hyperholomorphic setting as well as some associated quaternionic linear operators. In a particular case, we reobtain the slice hyperholomorphic Fock space introduced and studied in [2].
The theory of slice regular functions over the quaternions, introduced by Gentili and Struppa in [5], was born on domains that intersect the real axis. This hypothesis can be overcome using the theory of stem functions introduced by Ghiloni and Perotti ([6]), in the context of real alternative algebras. In this paper I will recall the notion and the main properties of stem functions. After that I will introduce the class of slice regular functions induced by stem functions and, in this set, I will extend the identity principle, the maximum and minimum modulus principles and the open mapping th…
We investigate slice-quaternionic Hopf surfaces. In particular, we construct new structures of slice-quaternionic manifold on $\mathbb{S}^1\times\mathbb{S}^7$, we study their group of automorphisms and their deformations.
Along with the development of the theory of slice regular functions over the real algebra of quaternions $\mathbb{H}$ during the last decade, some natural questions arose about slice regular functions on the open unit ball $\mathbb{B}$ in $\mathbb{H}$. This work establishes several new results in this context. Along with some useful estimates for slice regular self-maps of $\mathbb{B}$ fixing the origin, it establishes two variants of the quaternionic Schwarz-Pick lemma, specialized to maps $\mathbb{B}\to\mathbb{B}$ that are not injective. These results allow a full generalization to quaternio…
The Bargmann-Fock space of slice hyperholomorphic functions is recently introduced by Alpay, Colombo, Sabadini and Salomon. In this paper, we reconsider this space and present a direct proof of its independence of the slice. We also introduce a quaternionic analogue of the classical Segal-Bargmann transform and discuss some of its basic properties. The explicit expression of its inverse is obtained and the connection to the left one-dimensional quaternionic Fourier transform is given.
In this paper we study the additive splitting associated to the quaternionic Cauchy transform defined by the Cauchy formula of slice hyperholomorphic functions. Moreover, we introduce and study the analogue of the fundamental solution of the global operator of slice hyperholomorphic functions. We state our results in the quaternionic setting but several results hold for Clifford algebra-valued function with minor changes in the proofs.
In this paper we prove that, for any $n\in \mathbb N$, the ideal generated by $n$ slice regular functions $f_1,\ldots,f_n$ having no common zeros concides with the entire ring of slice regular functions. The proof required the study of the non-commutative syzygies of a vector of regular functions, that manifest a different character when compared with their complex counterparts.
Due to the invalidation of the Gauss-Lucas type result for quaternionic polynomials, we first give in this paper an alternative proof of the Bernstein inequality in $L^{p} (1\leq p \leq+\infty)$ for slice regular polynomials by the Fejér kernel and the Minkowski inequality. Secondly, we extend a result of Ankeny-Rivlin to the quaternionic setting via the Hopf lemma. By the way, some Turan inequalities are established for slice regular polynomials.
In their recent work, Gentili and Struppa proposed a different quaternionic analogue of the notion of holomorphic functions in the complex plane, called \textit{slice regular functions}, which has led to several analogues of classical theorems in complex function theory in the quaternionic setting. The quaternionic analogue of meromorphic functions is called \textit{semiregular functions}. Such a function is said to be \textit{slice preserving} if it maps each domain in a complex line to a domain in the same complex line. In this work, we deal with the relation between analytic and algebraic p…
The theory of slice regular functions of a quaternionic variable, introduced in 2006 by Gentili and Struppa, extends the notion of holomorphic function to the quaternionic setting. This fast growing theory is already rich of many results and has interesting applications. In this setting, the present paper is devoted to introduce and study the quaternionic counterparts of Hardy spaces of holomorphic functions of one complex variable. The basic properties of the theory of quaternionic Hardy spaces are investigated, and in particular a Poisson-type representation formula, the notions of outer fun…
In this paper, we consider a quaternionic short-time Fourier transform (QSTFT) with normalized Hermite functions as windows. It turns out that such a transform is based on the recent theory of slice polyanalytic functions on quaternions. Indeed, we will use the notions of true and full slice polyanalytic Fock spaces and Segal-Bargmann transforms. We prove new properties of this QSTFT including a Moyal formula, a reconstruction formula and a Lieb's uncertainty principle. These results extend a recent paper of the authors which studies a QSTFT having a Gaussian function as a window.
In this paper a quaternionic sharp version of the Carathéodory theorem is established for slice regular functions with positive real part, which strengthes a weaken version recently established by D. Alpay et. al. using the Herglotz integral formula. Moreover, the restriction of positive real part can be relaxed so that the theorem becomes the quaternionic version of the Borel-Carathéodory theorem. It turns out that the two theorems are equivalent.
The theory of slice regular functions is nowadays widely studied and has found its elegant applications to a functional calculus for quaternionic linear operators and Schur analysis. However, much less is known about their boundary behaviors. In this paper, we initiate the study of the boundary Julia theory for quaternions. More precisely, we establish the quaternionic versions of the Julia lemma, the Julia-Carathéodory theorem, the boundary Schwarz lemma, the Hopf lemma, and the Burns-Krantz rigidity theorem for slice regular self-mappings of the open unit ball $\mathbb B\subset \mathbb H$ an…
A new class of regular quaternionic functions, defined by power series in a natural fashion, has been introduced in recent years. Several results of the theory recall the classical complex analysis, whereas other results reflect the peculiarity of the quaternionic structure. A more recent paper identified a larger class of domains, on which the study of regular functions is most natural and not limited to the study of quaternionic power series. In the present paper we extend some basic results concerning the algebraic and topological properties of the zero set to regular functions defined on t…
In this paper we prove a new version of Krein-Langer factorization theorem in the slice hyperholomorphic setting which is more general than the one proved in [D. Alpay, F. Colombo, I. Sabadini, Krein-Langer factorization and related topics in the slice hyperholomorphic setting, J. Geom. Anal., 24 (2014), 843--872]. We treat both the case of functions with $κ$ negative squares defined on subsets of the quaternionic unit ball or on subsets of the half space of quaternions with positive real part. A crucial tool in the proof of our results is the Schauder-Tychonoff theorem and an invariant subspa…
The aim of this work is to define a continuous functional calculus in quaternionic Hilbert spaces, starting from basic issues regarding the notion of spherical spectrum of a normal operator. As properties of the spherical spectrum suggest, the class of continuous functions to consider in this setting is the one of slice quaternionic functions. Slice functions generalize the concept of slice regular function, which comprises power series with quaternionic coefficients on one side and that can be seen as an effective generalization to quaternions of holomorphic functions of one complex variable.…
Slice Fueter-regular functions, originally called slice Dirac-regular functions, are generalized holomorphic functions defined over the octonion algebra $\mathbb{O}$, recently introduced by M. Jin, G. Ren and I. Sabadini. A function $f:Ω_D\subset\mathbb{O}\to\mathbb{O}$ is called (quaternionic) slice Fueter-regular if, given any quaternionic subalgebra $\mathbb{H}_\mathbb{I}$ of $\mathbb{O}$ generated by a pair $\mathbb{I}=(I,J)$ of orthogonal imaginary units $I$ and $J$ ($\mathbb{H}_\mathbb{I}$ is a `quaternionic slice' of $\mathbb{O}$), the restriction of $f$ to $Ω_D\cap\mathbb{H}_\mathbb{I}…
The aim of the present paper is three folds. Firstly, we complete the study of the weighted hyperholomorphic Bergman space of the second kind on the ball of radius $R$ centred at the origin. The explicit expression of its Bergman kernel is given and can be written in terms of special hypergeometric functions of two non-commuting (quaternionic) variables. Secondly, we introduce and study some basic properties of an associated integral transform, the quaternionic analogue of the so-called second Bargmann transform for the holomorphic Bergman space. Finally, we establish the asymptotic behavior a…
The theory of slice regular functions of a quaternionic variable extends the notion of holomorphic function to the quaternionic setting. This theory, already rich of results, is sometimes surprisingly different from the theory of holomorphic functions of a complex variable. However, several fundamental results in the two environments are similar, even if their proofs for the case of quaternions need new technical tools. In this paper we prove the Landau-Toeplitz Theorem for slice regular functions, in a formulation that involves an appropriate notion of regular $2$-diameter. We then show that …
Slice regular functions have been extensively studied over the past decade, but much less is known about their boundary behavior. In this paper, we initiate the study of Julia theory for slice regular functions. More specifically, we establish the quaternionic versions of the Julia lemma, the Julia-Carathéodory theorem, the boundary Schwarz lemma, and the Burns-Krantz rigidity theorem for slice regular self-mappings of the open unit ball $\mathbb B$ and of the right half-space $\mathbb H^+$. Our quaternionic boundary Schwarz lemma involves a Lie bracket reflecting the non-commutativity of quat…
