We define and study quaternionic stochastic areas processes associated with Brownian motions on the rank-one symmetric spaces HHn HPn. The characteristic functions of fixed-time marginals these are computed allow for explicit description their corresponding large-time limits. also obtain exact formulas semigroup densities area using a Doob transform in former case density circular Jacobi proces...

We extend the twistor methods developed in our earlier work on linear deformations of hyperkähler manifolds [1] to the case of quaternionic-Kähler manifolds. Via Swann’s construction, deformations of a 4d-dimensional quaternionic-Kähler manifold M are in one-to-one correspondence with deformations of its 4d+ 4-dimensional hyperkähler cone S. The latter can be encoded in variations of the comple...

It is shown (1) that Lanczos’s quaternionic formulation of Dirac’s equation does not lead to a solution of the problems that plague the standard spin 3/2 theory based on the Rarita-Schwinger equation, but (2) that the four-component solutions to the quaternionic generalization of Dirac’s equation proposed by Lanczos in 1929 may provide a consistent theory for spin 3/2 particles, although at the...