just symmetric forms when "bilinear" is understood. Symmetric bilinear forms on finite-dimensional vector spaces precisely correspond to symmetric matrices...
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We define a bilinear form to be symmetric if B(v, w) = B(w, v) for all v, w in V; alternating if B(v, v) = 0 for all v in V; skew-symmetric or antisymmetric...
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skew-symmetric and symmetric bilinear forms coincide since then 1 = −1. In all cases, alternating bilinear forms are a subset of skew-symmetric bilinear forms...
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{T}}Ax.} Thus, bq is a symmetric bilinear form over K with matrix A. Conversely, any symmetric bilinear form b defines a quadratic form q ( x ) = b ( x , x...
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ordered field. Quadratic forms correspond one-to-one to symmetric bilinear forms over the same space. A symmetric bilinear form is also described as definite...
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In mathematics, the Killing form, named after Wilhelm Killing, is a symmetric bilinear form that plays a basic role in the theories of Lie groups and...
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Quasi-Frobenius Lie algebra (section Equivalence with pre-Lie algebras with nondegenerate invariant skew-symmetric bilinear form)
({\mathfrak {g}},[\,\,\,,\,\,\,])} equipped with a nondegenerate skew-symmetric bilinear form β : g × g → k {\displaystyle \beta :{\mathfrak {g}}\times {\mathfrak...
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Orthogonal basis (section Symmetric bilinear form)
vector space V {\displaystyle V} (over any field) equipped with a symmetric bilinear form ⟨ ⋅ , ⋅ ⟩ {\displaystyle \langle \cdot ,\cdot \rangle } , where...
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specifically linear algebra, a degenerate bilinear form f (x, y ) on a vector space V is a bilinear form such that the map from V to V∗ (the dual space...
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products represent the quadratic form. Through the polarization identity the quadratic form is related to a symmetric bilinear form B(u, v) = 1/4(q(u + v) −...
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Unimodular lattice (redirect from Unimodular symmetric bilinear form)
examples. A lattice is a free abelian group of finite rank with a symmetric bilinear form (·, ·). The lattice is integral if (·,·) takes integer values....
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Symmetric form may refer to: Symmetric bilinear form Symmetric sesquilinear form This disambiguation page lists mathematics articles associated with the...
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Orthogonal group (category Quadratic forms)
given a non-degenerate symmetric bilinear form or quadratic form on a vector space over a field, the orthogonal group of the form is the group of invertible...
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In mathematics, the intersection form of an oriented compact 4-manifold is a special symmetric bilinear form on the 2nd (co)homology group of the 4-manifold...
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Antisymmetric (redirect from Skew-symmetric)
transposition) is performed. See: Skew-symmetric matrix (a matrix A for which AT = −A) Skew-symmetric bilinear form is a bilinear form B such that B(x, y) = −B(y...
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Hodge star operator (category Differential forms)
finite-dimensional oriented vector space endowed with a nondegenerate symmetric bilinear form. Applying the operator to an element of the algebra produces the...
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appropriate indefinite orthogonal group. The quadratic form q gives rise to a symmetric bilinear form defined as follows: ⟨ x , y ⟩ = 1 2 [ q ( x + y ) −...
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Change of basis (section Bilinear forms)
P} if the matrix B is symmetric. If the characteristic of the ground field F is not two, then for every symmetric bilinear form there is a basis for which...
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Cartan–Dieudonné theorem (category Bilinear forms)
n-dimensional symmetric bilinear space can be described as the composition of at most n reflections. The notion of a symmetric bilinear space is a generalization...
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n-dimensional real vector space that leave invariant a nondegenerate, symmetric bilinear form of signature (p, q), where n = p + q. It is also called the pseudo-orthogonal...
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Ricci curvature (redirect from Ricci form)
the Ricci tensor assigns to each tangent space of the manifold a symmetric bilinear form. Broadly, one could analogize the role of the Ricci curvature in...
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Clifford algebra (category Quadratic forms)
is the symmetric bilinear form associated with Q, via the polarization identity. Quadratic forms and Clifford algebras in characteristic 2 form an exceptional...
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space. Using the polarization identity the quadratic form is converted to a symmetric bilinear form called the Minkowski inner product, though it is not...
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Witt group (redirect from Witt ring (forms))
Ernst Witt, is an abelian group whose elements are represented by symmetric bilinear forms over the field. Fix a field k of characteristic not equal to 2...
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is symmetric if and only if S is symmetric. There is thus a natural one-to-one correspondence between symmetric bilinear forms on TpM and symmetric linear...
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in this context "symmetric bilinear forms" are often referred to as "symmetric forms". These formulas also apply to bilinear forms on modules over a...
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to be semisimple. It is based on the notion of the Killing form, a symmetric bilinear form on g {\displaystyle {\mathfrak {g}}} defined by the formula...
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G-invariant bilinear form on V if and only if ι χ ≠ 0 {\displaystyle \iota \chi \neq 0} There exists a nonzero G-invariant symmetric bilinear form on V if...
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a nondegenerate skew-symmetric bilinear form. One could easily choose bases in which J {\displaystyle J} is not skew-symmetric or Ω {\displaystyle \Omega...
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metric tensor g (or equivalently, a real quadratic form thought of as a real symmetric bilinear form on a finite-dimensional vector space) is the number...
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