In mathematics and physics, a vector space (also called a linear space) is a set whose elements, often called vectors, can be added together and multiplied...
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In mathematics, the dimension of a vector space V is the cardinality (i.e., the number of vectors) of a basis of V over its base field. It is sometimes...
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A topological vector space is a vector space that is also a topological space with the property that the vector space operations (vector addition and scalar...
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In mathematics, a normed vector space or normed space is a vector space over the real or complex numbers on which a norm is defined. A norm is a generalization...
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Basis (linear algebra) (redirect from Linear Algebra/Basis for a Vector Space)
In mathematics, a set B of vectors in a vector space V is called a basis (pl.: bases) if every element of V may be written in a unique way as a finite...
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Vector space model or term vector model is an algebraic model for representing text documents (or more generally, items) as vectors such that the distance...
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mathematics, an inner product space (or, rarely, a Hausdorff pre-Hilbert space) is a real vector space or a complex vector space with an operation called an...
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This page lists some examples of vector spaces. See vector space for the definitions of terms used on this page. See also: dimension, basis. Notation...
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In mathematics, a super vector space is a Z 2 {\displaystyle \mathbb {Z} _{2}} -graded vector space, that is, a vector space over a field K {\displaystyle...
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a graded vector space is a vector space that has the extra structure of a grading or gradation, which is a decomposition of the vector space into a direct...
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In mathematics, a symplectic vector space is a vector space V {\displaystyle V} over a field F {\displaystyle F} (for example the real numbers R {\displaystyle...
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Norm (mathematics) (redirect from Vector norm)
In mathematics, a norm is a function from a real or complex vector space to the non-negative real numbers that behaves in certain ways like the distance...
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functional analysis, a Banach space (pronounced [ˈbanax]) is a complete normed vector space. Thus, a Banach space is a vector space with a metric that allows...
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on the above sorts of vectors. A vector space formed by geometric vectors is called a Euclidean vector space, and a vector space formed by tuples is called...
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The orientation of a real vector space or simply orientation of a vector space is the arbitrary choice of which ordered bases are "positively" oriented...
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re-formalized to define Euclidean spaces through axiomatic theory. Another definition of Euclidean spaces by means of vector spaces and linear algebra has been...
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In mathematics, any vector space V {\displaystyle V} has a corresponding dual vector space (or just dual space for short) consisting of all linear forms...
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Linear map (redirect from Vector space homomorphism)
transformation, vector space homomorphism, or in some contexts linear function) is a mapping V → W {\displaystyle V\to W} between two vector spaces that preserves...
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point, the zero vector is called the origin. Adding a fixed vector to the elements of a linear subspace (vector subspace) of a vector space produces an affine...
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topological vector spaces (LCTVS) or locally convex spaces are examples of topological vector spaces (TVS) that generalize normed spaces. They can be...
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mathematics, a vector bundle is a topological construction that makes precise the idea of a family of vector spaces parameterized by another space X {\displaystyle...
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Fréchet spaces, named after Maurice Fréchet, are special topological vector spaces. They are generalizations of Banach spaces (normed vector spaces that...
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In mathematics, the dimension theorem for vector spaces states that all bases of a vector space have equally many elements. This number of elements may...
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vector space V {\displaystyle V} by a subspace N {\displaystyle N} is a vector space obtained by "collapsing" N {\displaystyle N} to zero. The space obtained...
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Category of modules (redirect from Category of vector spaces)
(some authors use VectK) has all vector spaces over a field K as objects, and K-linear maps as morphisms. Since vector spaces over K (as a field) are the same...
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Tensor product (redirect from Tensor product of vector spaces)
product V ⊗ W {\displaystyle V\otimes W} of two vector spaces V and W (over the same field) is a vector space to which is associated a bilinear map V × W...
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Linear span (redirect from Linear Algebra/Generating a Vector Space)
linear hull or just span) of a set S {\displaystyle S} of elements of a vector space V {\displaystyle V} is the smallest linear subspace of V {\displaystyle...
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Hilbert spaces (named after David Hilbert) allow the methods of linear algebra and calculus to be generalized from (finite-dimensional) Euclidean vector spaces...
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mathematics, the complex conjugate of a complex vector space V {\displaystyle V\,} is a complex vector space V ¯ {\displaystyle {\overline {V}}} that has...
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Direct sum of modules (redirect from Complementary vector space)
depth. Suppose V and W are vector spaces over the field K. The cartesian product V × W can be given the structure of a vector space over K (Halmos 1974, §18)...
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