Meanings
nounPlücker embedding (plural Plücker embeddings)
plural Plücker embeddings
- mathematicsA method of realizing the Grassmannian Gr_k(V) of all k-dimensional subspaces of an n-dimensional vector space V as a subvariety of a projective space.
Origin
Named after the German mathematician Julius Plücker.
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