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pseudounitary

pseudounitary adjective: preserving Hermitian indefinite forms.

Adjective

pseudounitary (not comparable)

  1. Preserving Hermitian indefinite forms.
    • We present a novel representation of the Lorentz group, the geometric version of which uses "reversions" of a sphere while the algebraic version uses pseudounitary 2x2 matrices over complex numbers and quaternions, and Clifford algebras in general.2016, Jerzy Kocik, “Cromlech, menhirs and celestial sphere: an unusual representation of the Lorentz group”, in arXiv

Origin of pseudounitary

From pseudo- + unitary.

Questions about pseudounitary

What does pseudounitary mean?
Pseudounitary means preserving Hermitian indefinite forms.
What part of speech is pseudounitary?
Pseudounitary is an adjective.

Words near pseudounitary in the dictionary

  1. pseudoumbels
  2. pseudoumbilical
  3. pseudoungulate
  4. pseudoungulates
  5. pseudounipolar
  6. pseudounitary
  7. pseudourea
  8. pseudoureas
  9. pseudouridimycin
  10. pseudouridine
  11. pseudouridines

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