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The quaternion group $Q_{8}$ acts on $H$ by left multiplication

Example

The quaternion group $Q_{8}$ acts on the real vector space $H$ by left multiplication: $q \cdot x : = q x (q \in Q_{8}, x \in H) .$ This is a $4$ -dimensional real representation of $Q_{8}$ .

Facts & Assumptions

Given: The quaternion group $Q_{8}$ and the quaternions $H$ .

[L1]

The group $Q_{8}$ is the subset ${\pm 1, \pm i, \pm j, \pm k}$ of the nonzero quaternions (The quaternion group $Q_{8} = {\pm 1, \pm i, \pm j, \pm k}$ inside the nonzero quaternions).

[L2]

The quaternions form a division ring, so multiplication is associative and every nonzero quaternion is invertible ( $H$ is a division ring that is not commutative, hence not a field: $q^{- 1} = \overset{ˉ}{q} / N (q)$ for $q \neq 0$ , while $i j = k$ and $j i = - k$ ).

[L3]

The quaternions are the real vector space $R^{4}$ with basis $1, i, j, k$ (The quaternions $H$ : real quadruples with componentwise addition and an explicit multiplication formula matching the table on $1, i, j, k$ ).

Verification

technique · direct

1.1L2L3given

For each $q \in Q_{8}$ , define $L_{q} : H \to H$ by $L_{q} (x) = q x$ . By [L2], quaternion multiplication is distributive and real scalars commute with every quaternion, so $L_{q}$ is $R$ -linear. By [L3], the underlying vector space is $4$ -dimensional.

1.2L1L2

Because each $q \in Q_{8}$ is nonzero by [L1], [L2] gives an inverse $q^{- 1}$ in $H$ , and $L_{q^{- 1}}$ is the inverse of $L_{q}$ . So every $L_{q}$ is an invertible linear map.

2.1step 1.1step 1.2L2∎

The action laws hold: $1 \cdot x = x$ , and $(p q) \cdot x = (p q) x = p (q x) = p \cdot (q \cdot x)$ by associativity from [L2]. Therefore left multiplication is a finite-dimensional real representation of $Q_{8}$ .

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Sources

Peter Webb, A Course in Finite Group Representation Theory, Exercise 12 (standard reference, not scraped)

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