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Levi-Civita field

Levi-Civita field noun: a non-Archimedean ordered field whose every member a can be constructed as a formal series of the form a=∑_(q∈ℚ)a_qε^q, where a_q are real numbers, ℚ is the set of rational numbers, and ε is to be interpreted as a fixed positive infinitesimal.

Noun

Levi-Civita field (plural Levi-Civita fields)

  1. A non-Archimedean ordered field whose every member a can be constructed as a formal series of the form a=∑_(q∈ℚ)a_qε^q, where a_q are real numbers, ℚ is the set of rational numbers, and ε is to be interpreted as a fixed positive infinitesimal.

Forms of Levi-Civita field

pluralLevi-Civita fields

Origin of Levi-Civita field

Named after Tullio Levi-Civita.

Questions about Levi-Civita field

What does Levi-Civita field mean?
Levi-Civita field means a non-Archimedean ordered field whose every member a can be constructed as a formal series of the form a=∑_(q∈ℚ)a_qε^q, where a_q are real numbers, ℚ is the set of rational numbers, and ε is to be interpreted as a fixed positive infinitesimal.
What part of speech is Levi-Civita field?
Levi-Civita field is a noun.
What is the plural of Levi-Civita field?
The plural of Levi-Civita field is Levi-Civita fields.

Words near Levi-Civita field in the dictionary

  1. Leveys
  2. Levi
  3. Levi graph
  4. Levi graphs
  5. Levi's
  6. Levi-Civita field
  7. Levi-Civita fields
  8. leviable
  9. leviathan
  10. leviathanic
  11. leviathans

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