In mathematics, an isometry (or congruence, or congruent transformation) is a distance-preserving transformation between metric spaces, usually assumed...
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In mathematics, the isometry group of a metric space is the set of all bijective isometries (that is, bijective, distance-preserving maps) from the metric...
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In mathematics, a quasi-isometry is a function between two metric spaces that respects large-scale geometry of these spaces and ignores their small-scale...
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Isometry group Quasi-isometry Dade isometry Euclidean isometry Euclidean plane isometry Itō isometry Isometric (disambiguation) Isometries in physics This...
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Euclidean group (redirect from Opposite isometry)
In mathematics, a Euclidean group is the group of (Euclidean) isometries of a Euclidean space E n {\displaystyle \mathbb {E} ^{n}} ; that is, the transformations...
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In mathematics, the Itô isometry, named after Kiyoshi Itô, is a crucial fact about Itô stochastic integrals. One of its main applications is to enable...
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Euclidean space (section Isometries)
{1}{2}}\left(\|x+y\|^{2}-\|x\|^{2}-\|y\|^{2}\right).} An isometry of Euclidean vector spaces is a linear isomorphism. An isometry f : E → F {\displaystyle f\colon E\to F}...
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mathematical functional analysis, a partial isometry is a linear map between Hilbert spaces such that it is an isometry on the orthogonal complement of its kernel...
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In geometry, a Euclidean plane isometry is an isometry of the Euclidean plane, or more informally, a way of transforming the plane that preserves geometrical...
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Improper rotation (section As an indirect isometry)
rotation-reflection, rotoreflection, rotary reflection, or rotoinversion) is an isometry in Euclidean space that is a combination of a rotation about an axis and...
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in three dimensions is an isometry group in three dimensions that leaves the origin fixed, or correspondingly, an isometry group of a sphere. It is a...
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In linear algebra, the restricted isometry property (RIP) characterizes matrices which are nearly orthonormal, at least when operating on sparse vectors...
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For an object in a metric space, its symmetries form a subgroup of the isometry group of the ambient space. This article mainly considers symmetry groups...
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discrete isometry group is an isometry group such that for every point of the metric space the set of images of the point under the isometries is a discrete...
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and octahedron. It is the hyperoctahedral group for n = 3. See also the isometries of the cube. With the 4-fold axes as coordinate axes, a fundamental domain...
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A fixed point of an isometry group is a point that is a fixed point for every isometry in the group. For any isometry group in Euclidean space the set...
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In mathematical finite group theory, the Dade isometry is an isometry from class function on a subgroup H with support on a subset K of H to class functions...
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Quadratic form (redirect from Isometry (quadratic forms))
T : V → V′ (isometry) such that Q ( v ) = Q ′ ( T v ) for all v ∈ V . {\displaystyle Q(v)=Q'(Tv){\text{ for all }}v\in V.} The isometry classes of n-dimensional...
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spelled reflexion) is a mapping from a Euclidean space to itself that is an isometry with a hyperplane as the set of fixed points; this set is called the axis...
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Symmetry (physics) (redirect from Isometries in physics)
spacetime, i.e. they are isometries of Minkowski space. They are studied primarily in special relativity. Those isometries that leave the origin fixed...
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at p. The lemma allows the exponential map to be understood as a radial isometry, and is of fundamental importance in the study of geodesic convexity and...
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If h is a translation, then its conjugation by an isometry can be described as applying the isometry to the translation: the conjugation of a translation...
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group (named after Hermann Weyl) of a root system Φ is a subgroup of the isometry group of that root system. Specifically, it is the subgroup which is generated...
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follows: The Gaussian curvature of a surface is invariant under local isometry. A sphere of radius R has constant Gaussian curvature which is equal to...
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direct Euclidean isometry in three dimensions involves a translation and a rotation. The screw displacement representation of the isometry decomposes the...
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two-dimensional point group or rosette group is a group of geometric symmetries (isometries) that keep at least one point fixed in a plane. Every such group is a...
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Wold's decomposition (section A sequence of isometries)
isometric linear operators on a given Hilbert space. It states that every isometry is a direct sum of copies of the unilateral shift and a unitary operator...
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Rigid transformation (redirect from Euclidean isometry)
rigid transformation (also called Euclidean transformation or Euclidean isometry) is a geometric transformation of a Euclidean space that preserves the...
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whose isometry group is the complex automorphism group SL(2, R) = Sp(2, R), the Siegel upper half-space has only one metric up to scaling whose isometry group...
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Riemannian manifold (section Isometries)
surface is called a local isometry. A property of a surface is called an intrinsic property if it is preserved by local isometries and it is called an extrinsic...
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