- Book Chapter
2
- 10.1007/978-1-4612-1374-1_14
On the Radial Part of the Cauchy-Riemann Operator
- Jan 01, 2000
- Thomas Hempfling
Using the Clifford algebra C n , with generators $$ {e_{1}}, \ldots ,{e_{n}},e_{i}^{2} = - 1, $$ the Cauchy-Riemann operator in ℝ n+1 is defined as $$ \bar{\partial } = \frac{\partial }{{\partial xo}} + \sum\limits_{{i = 1}}^{n} {\frac{\partial }{{\partial {x_{i}}}}{e_{i}}} , $$ where $$ x = {x_{0}} + \sum\limits_{{i = 1}}^{n} {{x_{i}}{e_{i}}} , $$ is a paravector. We consider Fueter-type paravector functions f = u( x o, p) + I( x) v( x o, p), where $$ {p^{2}} = \sum\limits_{{i = 1}}^{n} {x_{i}^{2}} ,I\left( x \right): = \frac{1}{p} = \sum\limits_{{i = 1}}^{n} {{x_{i}}{e_{i}}} , $$ and u, v are real-valued. The equation $$\bar{\partial }f = 0$$ splits into two parts. One of them depends only on xo,p. This leads to a system of partial differential equations which coincides with the system defining hypermonogenic functions. These functions arise for example as solutions of the Dirac equation in the upper half space ℝ + +1 endowed with the Poincaré metric.
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