submultiplicative

adjective

Having the property ‖AB‖≤‖A‖‖B‖

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Meanings

adjectivesubmultiplicative (not comparable)
  1. not comparablemathematicsHaving the property ‖AB‖≤‖A‖‖B‖

    The partition functions of these models may satisfy a variety of super- or submultiplicative inequalities, and these may be reduced to a subadditive relation by taking logarithms, and changing signs, if necessary.

    2016, EJ Janse van Rensburg, “Subadditivity in models of interacting lattice clusters”, in arXiv

Origin

From sub- + multiplicative.

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