In this thesis, we are concerning about the Twistor theory, field originally motivated purely physically, although these days fully developed into the many fields of mathem- atics and physics. With its complexion Twistor theory influences algebraic geometry, Clifford analysis as well as the String theory or Theory of quantum gravity. In the thesis we describe the origin of twistors projective or not. Mathematical background to the twistor theory is covered in the first chapter, where we study Clifford algebras and their representations. In the first part of the second chapter we are describing non-projective twistors as representation elements of certain Spin-group, and we find the connection with the standard definition of non-projective twistors as a kernel of the twistor operator. In the last part of the second chapter, we create a space of pro- jective twistors and show its certain properties, especially its correspondence with the complexified compactified Minkowski spacetime.

The symplectic Dirac and the symplectic twistor operators are sym- plectic analogues of classical Dirac and twistor operators appearing in spin- Riemannian geometry. Our work concerns basic aspects of these two ope- rators. Namely, we determine the solution space of the symplectic twistor operator on the symplectic vector space of dimension 2n. It turns out that the solution space is a symplectic counterpart of the orthogonal situation. Moreover, we demonstrate on the example of 2n-dimensional tori the effect of dependence of the solution spaces of the symplectic Dirac and the symplectic twistor operators on the choice of the metaplectic structure. We construct a symplectic generalization of classical theta functions for the symplectic Dirac operator as well. We study several basic aspects of the symplectic version of Clifford analysis associated to the symplectic Dirac operator. Focusing mostly on the symplectic vector space of the real dimension 2, this amounts to the study of first order symmetry operators of the symplectic Dirac ope- rator, symplectic Clifford-Fourier transform and the reproducing kernel for the symplectic Fischer product including the construction of bases for the symplectic monogenics of the symplectic Dirac operator in real dimension 2 and their extension to symplectic spaces...

Conformal geometric algebra is defined in the thesis. Representations of geometric objects and possibilities of their geometric transformations are presented. Conformal geometric algebra is applied to the calculation of forward kinematics of a robotic manipulator UR10 from Universal Robots. It is also applied to determine the position of the machine based on the location and rotation of two cameras. Then it is used in an inverse task, where based on records from the two cameras, dimensions of the UR10 manipulator and possibilities of its movement, the mutual position of these cameras is determined. And consequently the possibilities of their location in space. Finally, the derived procedures are implemented in a custom program created in the CluCalc environment, using which a sample example verifying the correctness of these procedures is calculated.

Title: Distinguished elements of group rings Author: Bc. Zuzana Procházková Department: Department of Algebra Supervisor: doc. Mgr. et Mgr. Jan Žemlička, Ph.D., Department of Algebra Abstract: This thesis is about finding idempotents in a group ring. We describe three techniques of finding idempotents in a semisimple group ring and in the last chapter there is an attempt to find idempotents in a group ring that does not have to be semisimple. The first technique uses representations and characters of a group. The second technique finds idempotents through the use of Shoda pairs. The third technique lifts idempotent from the factor ring with the help of CNC system of ideals, which is a generalization of a well-known technique with nilpotent ideals, and it is here extended to group rings formed by non-abelian group and noncommutative ring. iii