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Sesquilinear form

Index Sesquilinear form

In mathematics, a sesquilinear form is a generalization of a bilinear form that, in turn, is a generalization of the concept of the dot product of Euclidean space. [1]

64 relations: *-algebra, Additive group, Additive map, Antihomomorphism, Antilinear map, Automorphism, Basis (linear algebra), Bilinear form, Bilinear map, Binary relation, Bra–ket notation, Cambridge University Press, Characteristic (algebra), Complex conjugate, Complex conjugate vector space, Complex number, Conjugate transpose, Correlation (projective geometry), D. Reidel, Desargues's theorem, Differential form, Division ring, Dot product, Dual space, Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete, Euclidean space, Field (mathematics), Finite field, Fixed point (mathematics), Functional (mathematics), Hermitian manifold, Hermitian matrix, Hilbert space, Identity function, Identity matrix, If and only if, Imaginary number, Imaginary unit, Inner product space, L-theory, Linear form, Linear map, Mathematics, Matrix (mathematics), Module (mathematics), Numeral prefix, Paul Dirac, Permutation, Prime power, Projective geometry, ..., Projective space, Quantum mechanics, Real number, Reinhold Baer, Ring (mathematics), Scalar (mathematics), Semilinear map, Skew-Hermitian matrix, Springer Science+Business Media, Subgroup, Symmetric relation, Tensor product, Universal property, Vector space. Expand index (14 more) »

*-algebra

In mathematics, and more specifically in abstract algebra, a *-algebra (or involutive algebra) is a mathematical structure consisting of two involutive rings and, where is commutative and has the structure of an associative algebra over.

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Additive group

An additive group is a group of which the group operation is to be thought of as addition in some sense.

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Additive map

In algebra an additive map, Z-linear map or additive function is a function that preserves the addition operation: for every pair of elements and in the domain.

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Antihomomorphism

In mathematics, an antihomomorphism is a type of function defined on sets with multiplication that reverses the order of multiplication.

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Antilinear map

In mathematics, a mapping f:V\to W from a complex vector space to another is said to be antilinear (or conjugate-linear) if for all a, \, b \, \in \mathbb and all x, \, y \, \in V, where \bar and \bar are the complex conjugates of a and b respectively.

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Automorphism

In mathematics, an automorphism is an isomorphism from a mathematical object to itself.

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Basis (linear algebra)

In mathematics, a set of elements (vectors) in a vector space V is called a basis, or a set of, if the vectors are linearly independent and every vector in the vector space is a linear combination of this set.

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Bilinear form

In mathematics, more specifically in abstract algebra and linear algebra, a bilinear form on a vector space V is a bilinear map, where K is the field of scalars.

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Bilinear map

In mathematics, a bilinear map is a function combining elements of two vector spaces to yield an element of a third vector space, and is linear in each of its arguments.

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Binary relation

In mathematics, a binary relation on a set A is a set of ordered pairs of elements of A. In other words, it is a subset of the Cartesian product A2.

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Bra–ket notation

In quantum mechanics, bra–ket notation is a standard notation for describing quantum states.

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Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press (CUP) is the publishing business of the University of Cambridge.

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Characteristic (algebra)

In mathematics, the characteristic of a ring R, often denoted char(R), is defined to be the smallest number of times one must use the ring's multiplicative identity (1) in a sum to get the additive identity (0) if the sum does indeed eventually attain 0.

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Complex conjugate

In mathematics, the complex conjugate of a complex number is the number with an equal real part and an imaginary part equal in magnitude but opposite in sign.

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Complex conjugate vector space

In mathematics, the complex conjugate of a complex vector space V\, is a complex vector space \overline V, which has the same elements and additive group structure as V, but whose scalar multiplication involves conjugation of the scalars.

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Complex number

A complex number is a number that can be expressed in the form, where and are real numbers, and is a solution of the equation.

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Conjugate transpose

In mathematics, the conjugate transpose or Hermitian transpose of an m-by-n matrix A with complex entries is the n-by-m matrix A∗ obtained from A by taking the transpose and then taking the complex conjugate of each entry.

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Correlation (projective geometry)

In projective geometry, a correlation is a transformation of a d-dimensional projective space that maps subspaces of dimension k to subspaces of dimension, reversing inclusion and preserving incidence.

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D. Reidel

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Desargues's theorem

In projective geometry, Desargues's theorem, named after Girard Desargues, states: Denote the three vertices of one triangle by and, and those of the other by and.

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Differential form

In the mathematical fields of differential geometry and tensor calculus, differential forms are an approach to multivariable calculus that is independent of coordinates.

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Division ring

In abstract algebra, a division ring, also called a skew field, is a ring in which division is possible.

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Dot product

In mathematics, the dot product or scalar productThe term scalar product is often also used more generally to mean a symmetric bilinear form, for example for a pseudo-Euclidean space.

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Dual space

In mathematics, any vector space V has a corresponding dual vector space (or just dual space for short) consisting of all linear functionals on V, together with the vector space structure of pointwise addition and scalar multiplication by constants.

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Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete

Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete/A Series of Modern Surveys in Mathematics is a series of scholarly monographs published by Springer Science+Business Media.

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Euclidean space

In geometry, Euclidean space encompasses the two-dimensional Euclidean plane, the three-dimensional space of Euclidean geometry, and certain other spaces.

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Field (mathematics)

In mathematics, a field is a set on which addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division are defined, and behave as when they are applied to rational and real numbers.

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Finite field

In mathematics, a finite field or Galois field (so-named in honor of Évariste Galois) is a field that contains a finite number of elements.

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Fixed point (mathematics)

In mathematics, a fixed point (sometimes shortened to fixpoint, also known as an invariant point) of a function is an element of the function's domain that is mapped to itself by the function.

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Functional (mathematics)

In mathematics, the term functional (as a noun) has at least two meanings.

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Hermitian manifold

In mathematics, and more specifically in differential geometry, a Hermitian manifold is the complex analogue of a Riemannian manifold.

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Hermitian matrix

In mathematics, a Hermitian matrix (or self-adjoint matrix) is a complex square matrix that is equal to its own conjugate transpose—that is, the element in the -th row and -th column is equal to the complex conjugate of the element in the -th row and -th column, for all indices and: Hermitian matrices can be understood as the complex extension of real symmetric matrices.

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Hilbert space

The mathematical concept of a Hilbert space, named after David Hilbert, generalizes the notion of Euclidean space.

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Identity function

Graph of the identity function on the real numbers In mathematics, an identity function, also called an identity relation or identity map or identity transformation, is a function that always returns the same value that was used as its argument.

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Identity matrix

In linear algebra, the identity matrix, or sometimes ambiguously called a unit matrix, of size n is the n × n square matrix with ones on the main diagonal and zeros elsewhere.

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If and only if

In logic and related fields such as mathematics and philosophy, if and only if (shortened iff) is a biconditional logical connective between statements.

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Imaginary number

An imaginary number is a complex number that can be written as a real number multiplied by the imaginary unit,j is usually used in Engineering contexts where i has other meanings (such as electrical current) which is defined by its property.

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Imaginary unit

The imaginary unit or unit imaginary number is a solution to the quadratic equation.

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Inner product space

In linear algebra, an inner product space is a vector space with an additional structure called an inner product.

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L-theory

In mathematics algebraic L-theory is the K-theory of quadratic forms; the term was coined by C. T. C. Wall, with L being used as the letter after K. Algebraic L-theory, also known as 'hermitian K-theory', is important in surgery theory.

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Linear form

In linear algebra, a linear functional or linear form (also called a one-form or covector) is a linear map from a vector space to its field of scalars.

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Linear map

In mathematics, a linear map (also called a linear mapping, linear transformation or, in some contexts, linear function) is a mapping between two modules (including vector spaces) that preserves (in the sense defined below) the operations of addition and scalar multiplication.

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Mathematics

Mathematics (from Greek μάθημα máthēma, "knowledge, study, learning") is the study of such topics as quantity, structure, space, and change.

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Matrix (mathematics)

In mathematics, a matrix (plural: matrices) is a rectangular array of numbers, symbols, or expressions, arranged in rows and columns.

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Module (mathematics)

In mathematics, a module is one of the fundamental algebraic structures used in abstract algebra.

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Numeral prefix

Numeral or number prefixes are prefixes derived from numerals or occasionally other numbers.

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Paul Dirac

Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac (8 August 1902 – 20 October 1984) was an English theoretical physicist who is regarded as one of the most significant physicists of the 20th century.

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Permutation

In mathematics, the notion of permutation relates to the act of arranging all the members of a set into some sequence or order, or if the set is already ordered, rearranging (reordering) its elements, a process called permuting.

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Prime power

In mathematics, a prime power is a positive integer power of a single prime number.

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Projective geometry

Projective geometry is a topic in mathematics.

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Projective space

In mathematics, a projective space can be thought of as the set of lines through the origin of a vector space V. The cases when and are the real projective line and the real projective plane, respectively, where R denotes the field of real numbers, R2 denotes ordered pairs of real numbers, and R3 denotes ordered triplets of real numbers.

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Quantum mechanics

Quantum mechanics (QM; also known as quantum physics, quantum theory, the wave mechanical model, or matrix mechanics), including quantum field theory, is a fundamental theory in physics which describes nature at the smallest scales of energy levels of atoms and subatomic particles.

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Real number

In mathematics, a real number is a value of a continuous quantity that can represent a distance along a line.

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Reinhold Baer

Reinhold Baer (22 July 1902 – 22 October 1979) was a German mathematician, known for his work in algebra.

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Ring (mathematics)

In mathematics, a ring is one of the fundamental algebraic structures used in abstract algebra.

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Scalar (mathematics)

A scalar is an element of a field which is used to define a vector space.

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Semilinear map

In linear algebra, particularly projective geometry, a semilinear map between vector spaces V and W over a field K is a function that is a linear map "up to a twist", hence semi-linear, where "twist" means "field automorphism of K".

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Skew-Hermitian matrix

In linear algebra, a square matrix with complex entries is said to be skew-Hermitian or antihermitian if its conjugate transpose is equal to the original matrix, with all the entries being of opposite sign.

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Springer Science+Business Media

Springer Science+Business Media or Springer, part of Springer Nature since 2015, is a global publishing company that publishes books, e-books and peer-reviewed journals in science, humanities, technical and medical (STM) publishing.

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Subgroup

In group theory, a branch of mathematics, given a group G under a binary operation ∗, a subset H of G is called a subgroup of G if H also forms a group under the operation ∗.

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Symmetric relation

In mathematics and other areas, a binary relation R over a set X is symmetric if it holds for all a and b in X that a is related to b if and only if b is related to a. In mathematical notation, this is: Symmetry, along with reflexivity and transitivity, are the three defining properties of an equivalence relation.

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Tensor product

In mathematics, the tensor product of two vector spaces and (over the same field) is itself a vector space, together with an operation of bilinear composition, denoted by, from ordered pairs in the Cartesian product into, in a way that generalizes the outer product.

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Universal property

In various branches of mathematics, a useful construction is often viewed as the “most efficient solution” to a certain problem.

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Vector space

A vector space (also called a linear space) is a collection of objects called vectors, which may be added together and multiplied ("scaled") by numbers, called scalars.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sesquilinear_form

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