pseudounitary

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adjective

Preserving Hermitian indefinite forms.

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Meanings

adjectivepseudounitary (not comparable)
  1. not comparablemathematicsPreserving Hermitian indefinite forms.

    We present a novel representation of the Lorentz group, the geometric version of which uses "reversions" of a sphere while the algebraic version uses pseudounitary 2x2 matrices over complex numbers and quaternions, and Clifford algebras in general.

    2016, Jerzy Kocik, “Cromlech, menhirs and celestial sphere: an unusual representation of the Lorentz group”, in arXiv

Origin

From pseudo- + unitary.

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