In
mathematics
Mathematics is an area of knowledge that includes the topics of numbers, formulas and related structures, shapes and the spaces in which they are contained, and quantities and their changes. These topics are represented in modern mathematics ...
, a transition function may refer to:
* a
transition map between two charts of an atlas of a manifold or other topological space
* the function that defines the transitions of a
state transition system in computing, which may refer more specifically to a
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Turing machine,
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finite-state machine, or
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cellular automaton
* a
stochastic kernel In statistics and probability theory, the conditional probability distribution function controlling the transitions of a stochastic process
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