Meanings
plural cothangents
- uncommonmathematicsSynonym of hyperbolic cotangent.
To see this let us expand the cothangent on the right-hand side of equation (26) in a power series to obtain […]
1971, J. Hubbard, “Spin-correlation functions in the paramagnetic phase of a Heisenberg ferromagnet”, in Journal of Physics C, volume 4, number 1, IOP Publishing, →ISSN, page 581 more example
While in the non-drifted case a generic h-slope not covering the origin behaves in proximity of its extremes as a 3D Bessel process, in the drifted case it behaves as a process with a cothangent drift, satisfying the SDE […]
2009, Alessandra Faggionato, “The alternating marked point process of h-slopes of drifted Brownian motion”, in Stochastic Processes and Their Applications, volume 119, number 6, Elsevier, →ISSN, page 1766Synonyms: hyperbolic cotangent
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSynonym of hyperbolic cotangent.
Origin
Blend of translingual coth + cotangent.
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