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unitriangular

unitriangular adjective: of a matrix: such that the entries on the main diagonal of a (upper or lower) triangular matrix are all 1.

Adjective

unitriangular (not comparable)

  1. Of a matrix: such that the entries on the main diagonal of a (upper or lower) triangular matrix are all 1.
    • In this paper we study distortion of various well-known embeddings of finitely generated torsion-free nilpotent groups G into unitriangular groups UT#95;n(#92;mathbb#123;Z#125;).2015, Funda Gul, Alexei G. Myasnikov, Mahmood Sohrabi, “Distortion of embeddings of a torsion-free finitely generated nilpotent group into a unitriangular group”, in arXiv

Origin of unitriangular

From uni- + triangular.

Questions about unitriangular

What does unitriangular mean?
Unitriangular means of a matrix: such that the entries on the main diagonal of a (upper or lower) triangular matrix are all 1.
What part of speech is unitriangular?
Unitriangular is an adjective.

Words near unitriangular in the dictionary

  1. unitlike
  2. unitooth
  3. unitransitive
  4. unitree
  5. unitrees
  6. unitriangular
  7. unitrinities
  8. unitrinity
  9. unitrust
  10. unitrusts
  11. units

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