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3-Rotations via the Olinde Rodrigues-Cartan and Hamilton-Cayley Expressions
Abstract
We exhibit how to construct 3-rotations via the matrix expression of Olinde Rodrigues-Cartan and the Hamilton-Cayley’s quaternionic relation. Besides, we obtain the generators of SU(2) and SO(3).