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Character Group
In mathematics, a character group is the group of representations of an abelian group by complex-valued functions. These functions can be thought of as one-dimensional matrix representations and so are special cases of the group characters that arise in the related context of character theory. Whenever a group is represented by matrices, the function defined by the trace of the matrices is called a character; however, these traces ''do not'' in general form a group. Some important properties of these one-dimensional characters apply to characters in general: * Characters are invariant on conjugacy classes. * The characters of irreducible representations are orthogonal. The primary importance of the character group for finite abelian groups is in number theory, where it is used to construct Dirichlet characters. The character group of the cyclic group also appears in the theory of the discrete Fourier transform. For locally compact abelian groups, the character group (with an ass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mathematics
Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes methods, Mathematical theory, theories and theorems that are developed and Mathematical proof, proved for the needs of empirical sciences and mathematics itself. There are many areas of mathematics, which include number theory (the study of numbers), algebra (the study of formulas and related structures), geometry (the study of shapes and spaces that contain them), Mathematical analysis, analysis (the study of continuous changes), and set theory (presently used as a foundation for all mathematics). Mathematics involves the description and manipulation of mathematical object, abstract objects that consist of either abstraction (mathematics), abstractions from nature orin modern mathematicspurely abstract entities that are stipulated to have certain properties, called axioms. Mathematics uses pure reason to proof (mathematics), prove properties of objects, a ''proof'' consisting of a succession of applications of in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fourier Analysis
In mathematics, Fourier analysis () is the study of the way general functions may be represented or approximated by sums of simpler trigonometric functions. Fourier analysis grew from the study of Fourier series, and is named after Joseph Fourier, who showed that representing a function as a sum of trigonometric functions greatly simplifies the study of heat transfer. The subject of Fourier analysis encompasses a vast spectrum of mathematics. In the sciences and engineering, the process of decomposing a function into oscillatory components is often called Fourier analysis, while the operation of rebuilding the function from these pieces is known as Fourier synthesis. For example, determining what component frequencies are present in a musical note would involve computing the Fourier transform of a sampled musical note. One could then re-synthesize the same sound by including the frequency components as revealed in the Fourier analysis. In mathematics, the term ''Fourier an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conjugate Transpose
In mathematics, the conjugate transpose, also known as the Hermitian transpose, of an m \times n complex matrix \mathbf is an n \times m matrix obtained by transposing \mathbf and applying complex conjugation to each entry (the complex conjugate of a+ib being a-ib, for real numbers a and b). There are several notations, such as \mathbf^\mathrm or \mathbf^*, \mathbf', or (often in physics) \mathbf^. For real matrices, the conjugate transpose is just the transpose, \mathbf^\mathrm = \mathbf^\operatorname. Definition The conjugate transpose of an m \times n matrix \mathbf is formally defined by where the subscript ij denotes the (i,j)-th entry (matrix element), for 1 \le i \le n and 1 \le j \le m, and the overbar denotes a scalar complex conjugate. This definition can also be written as :\mathbf^\mathrm = \left(\overline\right)^\operatorname = \overline where \mathbf^\operatorname denotes the transpose and \overline denotes the matrix with complex conjugated entries. Other na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finitely Generated Abelian Group
In abstract algebra, an abelian group (G,+) is called finitely generated if there exist finitely many elements x_1,\dots,x_s in G such that every x in G can be written in the form x = n_1x_1 + n_2x_2 + \cdots + n_sx_s for some integers n_1,\dots, n_s. In this case, we say that the set \ is a ''generating set'' of G or that x_1,\dots, x_s ''generate'' G. So, finitely generated abelian groups can be thought of as a generalization of cyclic groups. Every finite abelian group is finitely generated. The finitely generated abelian groups can be completely classified. Examples * The integers, \left(\mathbb,+\right), are a finitely generated abelian group. * The integers modulo n, \left(\mathbb/n\mathbb,+\right), are a finite (hence finitely generated) abelian group. * Any direct sum of finitely many finitely generated abelian groups is again a finitely generated abelian group. * Every lattice forms a finitely generated free abelian group. There are no other examples (up to isomorphism) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vector Space
In mathematics and physics, a vector space (also called a linear space) is a set (mathematics), set whose elements, often called vector (mathematics and physics), ''vectors'', can be added together and multiplied ("scaled") by numbers called scalar (mathematics), ''scalars''. The operations of vector addition and scalar multiplication must satisfy certain requirements, called ''vector axioms''. Real vector spaces and complex vector spaces are kinds of vector spaces based on different kinds of scalars: real numbers and complex numbers. Scalars can also be, more generally, elements of any field (mathematics), field. Vector spaces generalize Euclidean vectors, which allow modeling of Physical quantity, physical quantities (such as forces and velocity) that have not only a Magnitude (mathematics), magnitude, but also a Orientation (geometry), direction. The concept of vector spaces is fundamental for linear algebra, together with the concept of matrix (mathematics), matrices, which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Real Number
In mathematics, a real number is a number that can be used to measure a continuous one- dimensional quantity such as a duration or temperature. Here, ''continuous'' means that pairs of values can have arbitrarily small differences. Every real number can be almost uniquely represented by an infinite decimal expansion. The real numbers are fundamental in calculus (and in many other branches of mathematics), in particular by their role in the classical definitions of limits, continuity and derivatives. The set of real numbers, sometimes called "the reals", is traditionally denoted by a bold , often using blackboard bold, . The adjective ''real'', used in the 17th century by René Descartes, distinguishes real numbers from imaginary numbers such as the square roots of . The real numbers include the rational numbers, such as the integer and the fraction . The rest of the real numbers are called irrational numbers. Some irrational numbers (as well as all the rationals) a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Subgroup
In group theory, a branch of mathematics, a subset of a group G is a subgroup of G if the members of that subset form a group with respect to the group operation in G. Formally, given a group (mathematics), group under a binary operation ∗, a subset of is called a subgroup of if also forms a group under the operation ∗. More precisely, is a subgroup of if the Restriction (mathematics), restriction of ∗ to is a group operation on . This is often denoted , read as " is a subgroup of ". The trivial subgroup of any group is the subgroup consisting of just the identity element. A proper subgroup of a group is a subgroup which is a subset, proper subset of (that is, ). This is often represented notationally by , read as " is a proper subgroup of ". Some authors also exclude the trivial group from being proper (that is, ). If is a subgroup of , then is sometimes called an overgroup of . The same definitions apply more generally when is an arbitrary se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Appell–Humbert Theorem
In mathematics, the Appell–Humbert theorem describes the line bundles on a complex torus or complex abelian variety. It was proved for 2-dimensional tori by and , and in general by Statement Suppose that T is a complex torus given by V/\Lambda where \Lambda is a lattice in a complex vector space V. If H is a Hermitian form on V whose imaginary part E = \text(H) is integral on \Lambda\times\Lambda, and \alpha is a map from \Lambda to the unit circle U(1) = \, called a semi-character, such that :\alpha(u+v) = e^\alpha(u)\alpha(v)\ then : \alpha(u)e^\ is a 1-cocycle of \Lambda defining a line bundle on T. For the trivial Hermitian form, this just reduces to a character. Note that the space of character morphisms is isomorphic with a real torus\text_(\Lambda,U(1)) \cong \mathbb^/\mathbb^if \Lambda \cong \mathbb^ since any such character factors through \mathbb composed with the exponential map. That is, a character is a map of the form\text(2\pi i \langle l^*, -\rangle )for s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canonical Isomorphism
In mathematics, an isomorphism is a structure-preserving mapping or morphism between two structures of the same type that can be reversed by an inverse mapping. Two mathematical structures are isomorphic if an isomorphism exists between them. The word is derived . The interest in isomorphisms lies in the fact that two isomorphic objects have the same properties (excluding further information such as additional structure or names of objects). Thus isomorphic structures cannot be distinguished from the point of view of structure only, and may often be identified. In mathematical jargon, one says that two objects are the same up to an isomorphism. A common example where isomorphic structures cannot be identified is when the structures are substructures of a larger one. For example, all subspaces of dimension one of a vector space are isomorphic and cannot be identified. An automorphism is an isomorphism from a structure to itself. An isomorphism between two structures is a cano ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Complex Torus
In mathematics, a complex torus is a particular kind of complex manifold ''M'' whose underlying smooth manifold is a torus in the usual sense (i.e. the cartesian product of some number ''N'' circles). Here ''N'' must be the even number 2''n'', where ''n'' is the complex dimension of ''M''. All such complex structures can be obtained as follows: take a lattice Λ in a vector space V isomorphic to C''n'' considered as real vector space; then the quotient group V/\Lambda is a compact complex manifold. All complex tori, up to isomorphism, are obtained in this way. For ''n'' = 1 this is the classical period lattice construction of elliptic curves. For ''n'' > 1 Bernhard Riemann found necessary and sufficient conditions for a complex torus to be an algebraic variety; those that are varieties can be embedded into complex projective space, and are the abelian varieties. The actual projective embeddings are complicated (see equations defining abelian varieties) when ''n'' > 1, and are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Complex Conjugate
In mathematics, the complex conjugate of a complex number is the number with an equal real part and an imaginary part equal in magnitude but opposite in sign. That is, if a and b are real numbers, then the complex conjugate of a + bi is a - bi. The complex conjugate of z is often denoted as \overline or z^*. In polar form, if r and \varphi are real numbers then the conjugate of r e^ is r e^. This can be shown using Euler's formula. The product of a complex number and its conjugate is a real number: a^2 + b^2 (or r^2 in polar coordinates). If a root of a univariate polynomial with real coefficients is complex, then its complex conjugate is also a root. Notation The complex conjugate of a complex number z is written as \overline z or z^*. The first notation, a vinculum, avoids confusion with the notation for the conjugate transpose of a matrix, which can be thought of as a generalization of the complex conjugate. The second is preferred in physics, where ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Order (group Theory)
In mathematics, the order of a finite group is the number of its elements. If a group is not finite, one says that its order is ''infinite''. The ''order'' of an element of a group (also called period length or period) is the order of the subgroup generated by the element. If the group operation is denoted as a multiplication, the order of an element of a group, is thus the smallest positive integer such that , where denotes the identity element of the group, and denotes the product of copies of . If no such exists, the order of is infinite. The order of a group is denoted by or , and the order of an element is denoted by or , instead of \operatorname(\langle a\rangle), where the brackets denote the generated group. Lagrange's theorem states that for any subgroup of a finite group , the order of the subgroup divides the order of the group; that is, is a divisor of . In particular, the order of any element is a divisor of . Example The symmetric group S3 ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
