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positroid

positroid noun: a matroid of a real matrix with nonnegative maximal minors.

Noun

positroid (plural positroids)

  1. A matroid of a real matrix with nonnegative maximal minors
    • Finally, we give a way of producing a number for each matroid variety called its expected codimension that can be computed combinatorially solely from the matroid itself and show that it agrees with the actual codimension in the case of a positroid variety.2015, Nicolas Ford, “Geometric Shifts and Positroid Varieties”, in arXiv

Forms of positroid

pluralpositroids

Questions about positroid

What does positroid mean?
Positroid means a matroid of a real matrix with nonnegative maximal minors.
What part of speech is positroid?
Positroid is a noun.
What is the plural of positroid?
The plural of positroid is positroids.

Words near positroid in the dictionary

  1. positor
  2. positors
  3. positraction
  4. positrino
  5. positrinos
  6. positroid
  7. positroids
  8. positron
  9. positron emission tomographies
  10. positron emission tomography
  11. positron-emission tomography

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