self-adjoint

self-adjoint

See also: selfadjoint

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Proto-Indo-European *swé?
Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *selbaz
Old English self
Old English self-
Middle English self-
English self-
English adjoint
English self-adjoint

    From self- + adjoint.

    Adjective

    self-adjoint (not comparable)

    1. (mathematics) Adjoint to itself.
    2. (functional analysis) Being a Hilbert space operator which is Hermitian and also whose eigenvectors span the entire Hilbert space.

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