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nilprogressions

nilprogressions is the plural of nilprogression.

Meaning of nilprogression

Noun

nilprogression (plural nilprogressions)

  1. A function of the products of the elements of a nilpotent group and their inverses
    • We give a structural description of the finite subsets A of an arbitrary group G which obey the polynomial growth condition forsomeboundedd and sufficiently large n, showing that such sets are controlled by (a bounded number of translates of) a coset nilprogression in a certain precise sense.2015, Terence Tao, “Inverse theorems for sets and measures of polynomial growth”, in arXiv

Questions about nilprogressions

What is nilprogressions the plural of?
Nilprogressions is the plural of nilprogression.

Words near nilprogressions in the dictionary

  1. nilpotency
  2. nilpotent
  3. nilpotently
  4. nilpotents
  5. nilprogression
  6. nilprogressions
  7. nilradical
  8. nilradicals
  9. nils
  10. Nilsen
  11. nilsequence

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