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pseudoeffective

pseudoeffective adjective: having a nonnegative intersection product with every ample divisor and numerically eventually free if the intersection product with every positive divisor is non-negative.

Adjective

pseudoeffective (not comparable)

  1. Having a nonnegative intersection product with every ample divisor and numerically eventually free if the intersection product with every positive divisor is non-negative.
    • In this note we consider the problem of integrality of Zariski decompositions for pseudoeffective integral divisors on algebraic surfaces.2015, Brian Harbourne, Piotr Pokora, Halszka Tutaj-Gasińska, “On integral Zariski decompositions of pseudoeffective divisors on algebraic surfaces”, in arXiv

Origin of pseudoeffective

From pseudo- + effective.

Questions about pseudoeffective

What does pseudoeffective mean?
Pseudoeffective means having a nonnegative intersection product with every ample divisor and numerically eventually free if the intersection product with every positive divisor is non-negative.
What part of speech is pseudoeffective?
Pseudoeffective is an adjective.

Words near pseudoeffective in the dictionary

  1. pseudodysentery
  2. pseudodysphagia
  3. pseudoearly
  4. pseudoeconomic
  5. pseudoeducational
  6. pseudoeffective
  7. pseudoelastic
  8. pseudoelastically
  9. pseudoelasticities
  10. pseudoelasticity
  11. pseudoelater

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