English Explanatory Dictionary

Plücker embedding

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A method of realizing the Grassmannian Gr_k(V) of all k-dimensional subspaces of an n-dimensional vector space V as a subvariety of a projective space.

Word forms

Plücker embedding Plücker embeddings

Etymology

Named after the German mathematician Julius Plücker.

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