of abstract mathematics: in particular to algebraic geometry, invariant theory, and representation theory. Polarization and related techniques form the...
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Polarization of an algebraic form, a technique for expressing a homogeneous polynomial in a simpler fashion by adjoining more variables Polarization identity...
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Homogeneous polynomial (redirect from Algebraic form)
polynomial Diagonal form Graded algebra Hilbert series and Hilbert polynomial Multilinear form Multilinear map Polarization of an algebraic form Schur polynomial...
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In linear algebra, a branch of mathematics, the polarization identity is any one of a family of formulas that express the inner product of two vectors...
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theory, polarization is the maximal totally isotropic subspace of a certain skew-symmetric bilinear form on a Lie algebra. The notion of polarization plays...
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Geometric quantization (section Polarization)
known as the half-form correction) is a technical modification of the above procedure that is necessary in the case of real polarizations and often convenient...
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examples of a *-ring are fields of complex numbers and algebraic numbers with complex conjugation as the involution. One can define a sesquilinear form over...
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Clifford algebra is an algebra generated by a vector space with a quadratic form, and is a unital associative algebra with the additional structure of a distinguished...
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linear algebra, analytic geometry, and in the majority of applications of quadratic forms, the coefficients are real or complex numbers. In the algebraic theory...
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Symplectic vector space (redirect from Symplectic form)
not unique, and a choice of subspace V is called a polarization. The subspaces that give such an isomorphism are called Lagrangian subspaces or simply...
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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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is a glossary of algebraic geometry. See also glossary of commutative algebra, glossary of classical algebraic geometry, and glossary of ring theory. For...
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Tensor (redirect from Tensor Standard Form)
In mathematics, a tensor is an algebraic object that describes a multilinear relationship between sets of algebraic objects associated with a vector space...
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L-theory (redirect from Algebraic L-group)
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...
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Special unitary group (redirect from Special unitary Lie algebra)
variability of the pole of a wave, as noted in studies of polarization, might view elliptical polarization as an exhibit of the elliptical shape of a wave...
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Algebraic varieties are the central objects of study in algebraic geometry, a sub-field of mathematics. Classically, an algebraic variety is defined as...
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non-zero vectors of V. An indefinite quadratic form takes on both positive and negative values and is called an isotropic quadratic form. More generally...
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Fresnel equations (category Polarization (waves))
polarized") light has an equal amount of power in each of two linear polarizations. The s polarization refers to polarization of a wave's electric field...
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Pauli matrices (redirect from Pauli algebra)
interaction of the spin of a particle with an external electromagnetic field. They also represent the interaction states of two polarization filters for...
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Basis set (chemistry) (redirect from Polarization function)
equations of the model into algebraic equations suitable for efficient implementation on a computer. The use of basis sets is equivalent to the use of an approximate...
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Tate–Shafarevich group (category Algebraic geometry)
examples where the power of an odd prime dividing the order is odd. If the abelian variety has a principal polarization then the form on Ш is skew symmetric...
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split-octonions. Every composition algebra has an associated bilinear form B(x,y) constructed with the norm N and a polarization identity: B ( x , y ) = ...
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attempt at an algebraic organization of differential forms is usually credited to Élie Cartan with reference to his 1899 paper. Some aspects of the exterior...
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Stokes parameters (category Polarization (waves))
The Stokes parameters are a set of values that describe the polarization state of electromagnetic radiation. They were defined by George Gabriel Stokes...
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Inner product space (redirect from Linear Algebra/Inner Product Space)
dense algebraic span, in the inner product norm, follows from the fact that the sequence has a dense algebraic span, this time in the space of continuous...
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known as the Bloch sphere picture of qubit state space. An example of pure and mixed states is light polarization. An individual photon can be described...
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Jacobian variety (redirect from Jacobian of a curve)
variety J(C) of a non-singular algebraic curve C of genus g is the moduli space of degree 0 line bundles. It is the connected component of the identity...
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Faltings's theorem (category Theorems in algebraic geometry)
{\displaystyle C} be a non-singular algebraic curve of genus g {\displaystyle g} over Q {\displaystyle \mathbb {Q} } . Then the set of rational points on C {\displaystyle...
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Specular reflection (redirect from Law of reflection)
by a Kramers-Kronig transform. The polarization of the reflected light depends on the symmetry of the arrangement of the incident probing light with respect...
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K3 surface (category Algebraic surfaces)
algebraic surface that satisfies the same conditions. In the Enriques–Kodaira classification of surfaces, K3 surfaces form one of the four classes of...
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