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cross-polytopes

cross-polytopes is the plural of cross-polytope.

Meaning of cross-polytope

Noun

cross-polytope (plural cross-polytopes)

  1. A polytope that is the convex hull of points, two on each Cartesian axis of a Euclidean space, that are equidistant from the origin; an orthoplex.
    • The case p = 1, which is actually important to us, is illustrated in Figure 1.14; we are looking at the intersection of a cross-polytope with the probability simplex.2006, Ingemar Bengtsson, Karol Zyczkowski, Geometry of Quantum States: An Introduction to Quantum Entanglement, page 25
    Synonyms:
    cocube, hyperoctahedron, orthoplex

Questions about cross-polytopes

What is cross-polytopes the plural of?
Cross-polytopes is the plural of cross-polytope.

Words near cross-polytopes in the dictionary

  1. cross-pollinates
  2. cross-pollinating
  3. cross-pollination
  4. cross-pollinations
  5. cross-polytope
  6. cross-polytopes
  7. cross-post
  8. cross-posted
  9. cross-posting
  10. cross-posts
  11. cross-price elasticity of demand

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