Meanings
nounHahn series (plural Hahn series)
- mathematicsA type of formal infinite series, a generalization of Puiseux series. They allow for arbitrary exponents of the indeterminate so long as the set supporting them forms a well-ordered subset of the value group.
Origin
Introduced by Hans Hahn in 1907.
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