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hypercontractivity

hypercontractivity noun: excessive contractivity of the higher frequencies in a Fourier spectrum.

Noun

hypercontractivity (uncountable)

  1. Excessive contractivity of the higher frequencies in a Fourier spectrum.
    • Moreover, we show a uniform bound for the existence time of solutions as well as an optimal hypercontractivity estimate..2015, Piotr Biler, Jacek Zienkiewicz, “Existence of solutions for the Keller-Segel model of chemotaxis with measures as initial data”, in arXiv

Origin of hypercontractivity

From hyper- + contractivity.

Questions about hypercontractivity

What does hypercontractivity mean?
Hypercontractivity means excessive contractivity of the higher frequencies in a Fourier spectrum.
What part of speech is hypercontractivity?
Hypercontractivity is a noun.

Words near hypercontractivity in the dictionary

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

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