Reconstruction of a slice regular function from some of its real components

Abstract

A basic property of holomorphic functions $f:D\to \mathbb{C}$ defined on domains $D$ of $\mathbb{C}$ is that $f$ is uniquely determined by its real part up to an additive constant. The same is true for slice regular functions defined on circular slice domains of the division algebra of quaternions or octonions. The aim of this paper is to extend the latter result to more general classes of algebras, including, among many others, the Clifford algebras $\mathbb{R}_{p,q}$ and the split octonions $\mathbb{S}\mathbb{O}$. New phenomena appear, as well as unexpected connections with graph theory and the theory of slice-Nash functions.