Self-adjoint

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Adjoint to itself. not-comparable
  2. 2
    Being a Hilbert space operator which is Hermitian and also whose eigenvectors span the entire Hilbert space. not-comparable

Synonyms

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hermitian

Etymology

From self- + adjoint.

Related phrases

self-adjointness

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