nLab quaternionic unitary group

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See also compact symplectic group.

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Idea

This Lie group is the analog of the unitary group as one passes from the complex numbers to the quaternions.

The quaternionic unitary group Sp(n)Sp(n) is the group of quaternion-unitary transformations of n\mathbb{H}^n. It is also called the compact symplectic group, since both it and the symplectic group Sp(2n,)Sp(2n, \mathbb{R}) are real forms of the complex Lie group Sp(2n,)Sp(2n,\mathbb{C}), and it is the compact form.

Properties

Exceptional isomorphisms

References

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