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hypercontractive

hypercontractive adjective: that produces or exhibits hypercontractivity.

Adjective

hypercontractive (not comparable)

  1. That produces or exhibits hypercontractivity
    • We show that for a hypoelliptic Dirichlet form operator A on a stratified complex Lie group, if the logarithmic Sobolev inequality holds, then a holomorphic projection of A is strongly hypercontractive in the sense of Janson.2015, Nathaniel Eldredge, Leonard Gross, Laurent Saloff-Coste, “Strong hypercontractivity and logarithmic Sobolev inequalities on stratified complex Lie groups”, in arXiv

Origin of hypercontractive

From hyper- + contractive.

Questions about hypercontractive

What does hypercontractive mean?
Hypercontractive means that produces or exhibits hypercontractivity.
What part of speech is hypercontractive?
Hypercontractive is an adjective.

Words near hypercontractive in the dictionary

  1. hypercontracted
  2. hypercontractile
  3. hypercontractility
  4. hypercontraction
  5. hypercontractions
  6. hypercontractive
  7. hypercontractivity
  8. hypercontracture
  9. hypercontractures
  10. hypercontrolled
  11. hypercontrolling

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