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Plücker embedding

Plücker embedding noun: a method of realizing the Grassmannian Gr_k(V) of all k-dimensional subspaces of an n-dimensional vector space V as a subvariety of a projective space.

Noun

Plücker embedding (plural Plücker embeddings)

  1. A method of realizing the Grassmannian Gr_k(V) of all k-dimensional subspaces of an n-dimensional vector space V as a subvariety of a projective space.

Forms of Plücker embedding

pluralPlücker embeddings

Origin of Plücker embedding

Named after the German mathematician Julius Plücker.

Questions about Plücker embedding

What does Plücker embedding mean?
Plücker embedding means a method of realizing the Grassmannian Gr_k(V) of all k-dimensional subspaces of an n-dimensional vector space V as a subvariety of a projective space.
What part of speech is Plücker embedding?
Plücker embedding is a noun.
What is the plural of Plücker embedding?
The plural of Plücker embedding is Plücker embeddings.

Words near Plücker embedding in the dictionary

  1. Plénée-Jugon
  2. Plérin
  3. Plücker
  4. Plücker coordinate
  5. Plücker coordinates
  6. Plücker embedding
  7. Plücker embeddings
  8. Plücker matrices
  9. Plücker matrix
  10. Plücker relation
  11. Plücker relations

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