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    equation Weyl expansion Weyl fermion Weyl gauge Weyl gravity Weyl notation Weyl quantization Weyl spinor Weyl sum, a type of exponential sum Weyl symmetry:...
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    Carl Jules Weyl (6 December 1890 – 12 July 1948) was a German architect and art director. He designed or co-designed six contributing properties in the...
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  • In theoretical physics, the Weyl transformation, named after German mathematician Hermann Weyl, is a local rescaling of the metric tensor: g a b → e −...
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    quantum field theory, the Weyl equation is a relativistic wave equation for describing massless spin-1/2 particles called Weyl fermions. The equation is...
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    Spinor (redirect from Majorana-Weyl spinor)
    dimension is odd, or it will decompose into a pair of so-called "half-spin" or Weyl representations if the dimension is even. What characterizes spinors and...
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  • mathematics, Weyl's theorem or Weyl's lemma might refer to one of a number of results of Hermann Weyl. These include the Peter–Weyl theorem Weyl's theorem...
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    mathematics, in particular the theory of Lie algebras, the Weyl group (named after Hermann Weyl) of a root system Φ is a subgroup of the isometry group of...
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  • In differential geometry, the Weyl curvature tensor, named after Hermann Weyl, is a measure of the curvature of spacetime or, more generally, a pseudo-Riemannian...
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  • In mathematics, a Weyl sequence is a sequence from the equidistribution theorem proven by Hermann Weyl: The sequence of all multiples of an irrational...
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  • In quantum mechanics, the Wigner–Weyl transform or Weyl–Wigner transform (after Hermann Weyl and Eugene Wigner) is the invertible mapping between functions...
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  • An Einstein–Weyl geometry is a smooth conformal manifold, together with a compatible Weyl connection that satisfies an appropriate version of the Einstein...
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  • algebra, a Weyl module is a representation of a reductive algebraic group, introduced by Carter and Lusztig (1974, 1974b) and named after Hermann Weyl. In characteristic 0...
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  • In mathematics, the Peter–Weyl theorem is a basic result in the theory of harmonic analysis, applying to topological groups that are compact, but are not...
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  • Weyl semimetals are semimetals or metals whose quasiparticle excitation is the Weyl fermion, a particle that played a crucial role in quantum field theory...
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  • algebra, the Weyl algebras are abstracted from the ring of differential operators with polynomial coefficients. They are named after Hermann Weyl, who introduced...
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  • Woldemar Anatol Weyl (1901 – July 30, 1975) was a German-born scientist. Weyl taught at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute between 1932 and 1936, when he began...
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  • In the Newman–Penrose (NP) formalism of general relativity, Weyl scalars refer to a set of five complex scalars { Ψ 0 , Ψ 1 , Ψ 2 , Ψ 3 , Ψ 4 } {\displaystyle...
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  • In mathematics, the Weyl character formula in representation theory describes the characters of irreducible representations of compact Lie groups in terms...
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  • In differential geometry, a Weyl connection (also called a Weyl structure) is a generalization of the Levi-Civita connection that makes sense on a conformal...
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  • Nathaniel Weyl (July 20, 1910 – April 13, 2005) was an American economist and author who wrote on a variety of social issues. A member of the Communist...
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    Eric Glen Weyl (born May 6, 1985) is an American economist at Microsoft Research, and a co-author (with Eric Posner) of the book Radical Markets: Uprooting...
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  • Schur–Weyl duality is a mathematical theorem in representation theory that relates irreducible finite-dimensional representations of the general linear...
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  • In physics, the Weyl expansion, also known as the Weyl identity or angular spectrum expansion, expresses an outgoing spherical wave as a linear combination...
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  • attributed to the German philosopher and mathematician Hermann Weyl thus occasionally called Weyl's paradox or Grelling's paradox. It is closely related to several...
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  • In mathematics, especially spectral theory, Weyl's law describes the asymptotic behavior of eigenvalues of the Laplace–Beltrami operator. This description...
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  • In general relativity, the Weyl metrics (named after the German-American mathematician Hermann Weyl) are a class of static and axisymmetric solutions to...
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  • Coxeter groups include the symmetry groups of regular polytopes, and the Weyl groups of simple Lie algebras. Examples of infinite Coxeter groups include...
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  • A conformal anomaly, scale anomaly, trace anomaly or Weyl anomaly is an anomaly, i.e. a quantum phenomenon that breaks the conformal symmetry of the classical...
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  • José Enrique Moyal; also called the star product or Weyl–Groenewold product, after Hermann Weyl and Hilbrand J. Groenewold) is an example of a phase-space...
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  • to perhaps be Weyl fermions, but when they were discovered to have mass, that left no fundamental particles of the Weyl type. The Weyl fermions discovered...
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