self-adjoint

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Adjoint to itself.
  2. Being a Hilbert space operator which is Hermitian and also whose eigenvectors span the entire Hilbert space.

Word forms

self-adjoint

Etymology

From self- + adjoint.

Derived words

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