TABLE A1

Summary Table with the Basic Properties of Bicomplex Numbers

NameDefinitionReference
Bicomplex numbersEmbedded Image(Alpay et al., 2014, p. 10)(A.1)
Bar-conjugationEmbedded Image
The terms multiplying i and k are negated
(Alpay et al., 2014, p. 10)(A.2)
†-conjugationEmbedded Image
The terms multiplying j and k are negated
(Alpay et al., 2014, p. 10)(A.3)
ConjugationEmbedded Image
The terms multiplying i and j are negated
(Alpay et al., 2014, p. 10)(A.4)
Conjugation propertiesEach conjugation is additive, involutive, and multiplicative(Alpay et al., 2014, p. 11)(A.5)
i-modulusEmbedded Image(Alpay et al., 2014, p. 11)(A.6)
j-modulusEmbedded Image(Alpay et al., 2014, p. 12)(A.7)
k-modulusEmbedded Image(Alpay et al., 2014, p. 12)(A.8)
Idempotent decompositionEmbedded Image(Alpay et al., 2014, p. 15)(A.9)
| · |k idempotent decompositionEmbedded Image(Alpay et al., 2014, p. 21)(A.10)