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parahoric

parahoric adjective: describing a form of parabolic Iwahori subgroups.

Adjective

parahoric (not comparable)

  1. Describing a form of parabolic Iwahori subgroups.
    • As a corollary, we prove that the canonical Haar measure on G, which assigns volume 1 to the particular \emph{canonical} maximal parahoric defined by Gross, is motivic.2015, Julia Gordon, David Roe, “The canonical measure on a reductive p-adic group is motivic”, in arXiv

Origin of parahoric

Blend of parabolic + Iwahori.

Questions about parahoric

What does parahoric mean?
Parahoric means describing a form of parabolic Iwahori subgroups.
What part of speech is parahoric?
Parahoric is an adjective.

Words near parahoric in the dictionary

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  4. parahoplitid
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