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Publications and source records attributed to Antony Telveenus.
The ring of quaternions is defined over the field of real numbers. This article extends that framework by defining quaternions over a class of commutative unital rings and generalising several of their properties. It also studies the properties of the unit group of quaternions over commutative rings with special attention to halidon rings.
Halidon rings are rings with a unit element, containing a primitive $m^{th}$ root of unity and $m$ is invertible in the ring. The field of complex numbers is a halidon ring with any index $ m \geq 1$. In this article, the author examines the computational aspects of a new class of rings called Halidon rings and their applications with the help of computer codes. In representation theory, Maschke's theorem has an important role in studying the irreducible subrepresentations of a given group representation. Mainly the study is related to a finite field of characteristic which does not divide the order of the given finite group or the field of real or complex numbers. This article also examines the possibility of replacing the finite field in the theorem with halidon rings in such a way that the theorem is still valid. Halidon rings are rings with the unit element, containing a primitive $m^{th}$ root of unity and $m$ is invertible in the ring. The field of complex numbers is a halidon ring with any index $ m \geq 1$. Some computer codes have been developed to establish the existence of halidon rings which are not fields and the computation of units, involutions and idempotents in both halidon rings and halidon group rings. The application halidon rings in Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) is studied and two computer codes have been developed to calculate DFT and inverse DFT