Quaternion Group - Cayley Table

Cayley Table

The Cayley table (multiplication table) for Q is given by:

	1	−1	i	−i	j	−j	k	−k
1	1	−1	i	−i	j	−j	k	−k
−1	−1	1	−i	i	−j	j	−k	k
i	i	−i	−1	1	k	−k	−j	j
−i	−i	i	1	−1	−k	k	j	−j
j	j	−j	−k	k	−1	1	i	−i
−j	−j	j	k	−k	1	−1	−i	i
k	k	−k	j	−j	−i	i	−1	1
−k	−k	k	−j	j	i	−i	1	−1

The multiplication of pairs of elements from the subset {±i, ±j, ±k} works like the cross product of unit vectors in three-dimensional Euclidean space.

$\begin{alignat}{2} ij & = k, & ji & = -k, \\ jk & = i, & kj & = -i, \\ ki & = j, & ik & = -j. \end{alignat}$

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