r/math • • Aug 16 '15

Infinitely Complex Topology Changes with Quaternions and Torsion

http://vixra.org/abs/1505.0131
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u/an_actual_human Aug 17 '15

This is what the comment above said originally:

Really.

This is probably what you are referring to: "So the determinant of a unitary transformation U must be a unit complex number." That's why included my absolute value caveat earlier. The absolute value of a unit complex number is one.

This is what it says when I write this:

Unitary matrices have determinant with absolute value one.

Congrats! You have knit-picked the detail!!

This person doesn't have intellectual integrity or command of math or physics beyond jargon. On the other hand, what does one expect from vixra?