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elliptope

elliptope noun: the set of all real, square symmetric matrices whose diagonal entries are all equal to one and whose eigenvalues are all non-negative.

Noun

elliptope (plural elliptopes)

  1. The set of all real, square symmetric matrices whose diagonal entries are all equal to one and whose eigenvalues are all non-negative.
    • In particular, we use a known lower bound on the size of matrix representations of extremal quantum correlations which we apply to high-rank extreme points of the n-dimensional elliptope. Lastly, we study cpsd-graphs, i.e., graphs G with the property that every doubly nonnegative matrix whose...2016, Anupam Prakash, Jamie Sikora, Antonios Varvitsiotis, Zhaohui Wei, “Completely positive semidefinite rank”, in arXiv

Forms of elliptope

pluralelliptopes

Origin of elliptope

coined in: M. Laurent and S. Poljak, On a positive semidefinite relaxation of the cut polytope, Linear Algebra Appl., 223/224, (1995), 439-461

Questions about elliptope

What does elliptope mean?
Elliptope means the set of all real, square symmetric matrices whose diagonal entries are all equal to one and whose eigenvalues are all non-negative.
What part of speech is elliptope?
Elliptope is a noun.
What is the plural of elliptope?
The plural of elliptope is elliptopes.

Words near elliptope in the dictionary

  1. elliptoechinocytes
  2. elliptograph
  3. elliptographs
  4. elliptoid
  5. elliptone
  6. elliptope
  7. elliptopes
  8. elliptospherocone
  9. elliptospherocones
  10. elliptospheroconic
  11. ellipts

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