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mirabolic

mirabolic adjective: being or relating to a subgroup of the general linear group GLₙ(k) that consists of automorphisms fixing a given non-zero vector in kⁿ. Its image in the projective general linear group is a parabolic subgroup consisting of all elements fixing a given point of projective space.

Adjective

mirabolic (not comparable)

  1. Being or relating to a subgroup of the general linear group GLₙ(k) that consists of automorphisms fixing a given non-zero vector in kⁿ. Its image in the projective general linear group is a parabolic subgroup consisting of all elements fixing a given point of projective space.
    • We also give an analogue of our main theorem in the setting of mirabolic D-modules.2015, Gwyn Bellamy, Travis Schedler, “Kostka polynomials from nilpotent cones and Springer fiber cohomology”, in arXiv

Origin of mirabolic

Blend of miraculous + parabolic.

Questions about mirabolic

What does mirabolic mean?
Mirabolic means being or relating to a subgroup of the general linear group GLₙ(k) that consists of automorphisms fixing a given non-zero vector in kⁿ. Its image in the projective general linear group is a parabolic subgroup consisting of all elements fixing a given point of projective space.
What part of speech is mirabolic?
Mirabolic is an adjective.

Words near mirabolic in the dictionary

  1. mirability
  2. mirabilysin
  3. mirable
  4. mirabolan
  5. mirabolans
  6. mirabolic
  7. Mirac
  8. mirach
  9. mirachs
  10. miracidia
  11. miracidial

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