Sesquilinear
adj
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Definitions
Adjective
- 1 (of a map of a complex vector space) Linear in one coordinate and conjugate linear in the other not-comparable
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From sesqui- (“one and a half”) + linear; “conjugate linear” being considered metaphorically “half linear”, hence one and a half times linear, as opposed to bilinear (“linear in both variables”).
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