English Explanatory Dictionary

Jacobi identity

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Given a binary operation × defined on a set S which also has additive operation + and additive identity 0, the property that a × (b×c) + b × (c×a) + c × (a×b) = 0 for all a, b, c in S.

Word forms

Jacobi identity Jacobi identities

Etymology

After German mathematician Carl Gustav Jakob Jacobi (1804-1851).

Derived words

super Jacobi identity
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