Balian or Balyan may refer to:
People
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Balian of Ibelin (disambiguation) Balian of Ibelin is a name shared by several members of a noble family from the crusader kingdoms of Jerusalem and Cyprus. The most famous was the second lord of Ibelin by that name, whose heavily fictionalised biography was depicted in the 2005 mov ...
, a name shared by several members of the Ibelin family from the crusader kingdoms of Jerusalem and Cyprus
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Balian Buschbaum (born 1980), German pole vaulter
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Roger Balian
Roger Balian (born 18 January 1933) is a French-Armenian physicist who has worked on quantum field theory, quantum thermodynamics, and theory of measurement.
Balian is a member of French Académie des sciences (Academy of Sciences). His importan ...
, 20th-century French physicist; co-creator of the Balian–Low theorem
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Balyan family, Ottoman Armenian family of court architects, 18th–19th century
Southeast Asia
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Balian'', another term for the ''babaylan'' shamans of the Philippines
* ''Balian'', Balinese language term for a
traditional healer
Other uses
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Balian–Low theorem In mathematics, the Balian–Low theorem in Fourier analysis is named for Roger Balian and Francis E. Low.
The theorem states that there is no well-localized window function (or Gabor atom) ''g'' either in time or frequency for an exact Gabor fram ...
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