plactic

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adjective

Based on all words in the alphabet of positive integers modulo Knuth equivalence.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

adjectiveplactic (not comparable)
  1. not comparablemathematicsBased on all words in the alphabet of positive integers modulo Knuth equivalence.

    We obtain as a corollary that plactic monoids for any semisimple Lie algebra satisfy homological finiteness properties..

    2015, Nohra Hage, “Finite convergent presentations of plactic monoids for semisimple lie algebras”, in arXiv

Origin

  1. Frenchplaxique
  2. Englishplactic

From French plaxique.

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