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paramodular

paramodular adjective: pertaining to a pair (a, b) of set functions where a is supermodular, b is submodular, and they always satisfy the cross-inequality b(X) - a(Y) > b(X-Y) -a(Y-X) for all X, Y.

Adjective

paramodular (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to a pair (a, b) of set functions where a is supermodular, b is submodular, and they always satisfy the cross-inequality b(X) - a(Y) > b(X-Y) -a(Y-X) for all X, Y.
    • We give criteria under which the isogeny class of A is determined by F and thereby obtain new evidence towards our paramodular conjecture.2015, Armand Brumer, Kenneth Kramer, “Certain Abelian varieties bad at only one prime”, in arXiv

Origin of paramodular

From para- + modular.

Questions about paramodular

What does paramodular mean?
Paramodular means pertaining to a pair (a, b) of set functions where a is supermodular, b is submodular, and they always satisfy the cross-inequality b(X) - a(Y) > b(X-Y) -a(Y-X) for all X, Y.
What part of speech is paramodular?
Paramodular is an adjective.

Words near paramodular in the dictionary

  1. paramnesias
  2. paramnesic
  3. paramo
  4. paramodulant
  5. paramodulants
  6. paramodular
  7. paramodulation
  8. paramodulations
  9. paramoecia
  10. paramoecium
  11. paramoeciums

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