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Jordan blocks

Jordan blocks is the plural of Jordan block.

Meaning of Jordan block

Noun

Jordan block (plural Jordan blocks)

  1. A Jordan block over a ring R (whose identities are the zero 0 and one 1) is a matrix composed of 0 elements everywhere except for the diagonal, which is filled with a fixed element λ ∈ R, and the superdiagonal, which is composed of ones.

Questions about Jordan blocks

What is Jordan blocks the plural of?
Jordan blocks is the plural of Jordan block.

Words near Jordan blocks in the dictionary

  1. Jordan algebra
  2. Jordan algebras
  3. Jordan almond
  4. Jordan almonds
  5. Jordan block
  6. Jordan blocks
  7. Jordan curve
  8. Jordan curve theorem
  9. Jordan curves
  10. Jordan matrices
  11. Jordan matrix

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