Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The name "dot product" is derived from the dot operator " · " that is often used to designate this operation; [1] the alternative name "scalar product" emphasizes that the result is a scalar, rather than a vector (as with the vector product in three-dimensional space).
The dot product on is an example of a bilinear form which is also an inner product. [1] An example of a bilinear form that is not an inner product would be the four-vector product. The definition of a bilinear form can be extended to include modules over a ring, with linear maps replaced by module homomorphisms.
Frobenius inner product, the dot product of matrices considered as vectors, or, equivalently the sum of the entries of the Hadamard product; Hadamard product of two matrices of the same size, resulting in a matrix of the same size, which is the product entry-by-entry; Kronecker product or tensor product, the generalization to any size of the ...
The scalar triple product (also called the mixed product, box product, or triple scalar product) is defined as the dot product of one of the vectors with the cross product of the other two. Geometric interpretation
Also, the dot, cross, and dyadic products can all be expressed in matrix form. Dyadic expressions may closely resemble the matrix equivalents. The dot product of a dyadic with a vector gives another vector, and taking the dot product of this result gives a scalar derived from the dyadic.
The generalization of the dot product formula to Riemannian manifolds is a defining property of a Riemannian connection, which differentiates a vector field to give a vector-valued 1-form. Cross product rule
Inner product spaces generalize Euclidean vector spaces, in which the inner product is the dot product or scalar product of Cartesian coordinates. Inner product spaces of infinite dimension are widely used in functional analysis. Inner product spaces over the field of complex numbers are sometimes referred to as unitary spaces.
A commutative semigroup is a set endowed with a total, associative and commutative operation. If the operation additionally has an identity element, we have a commutative monoid; An abelian group, or commutative group is a group whose group operation is commutative. [16] A commutative ring is a ring whose multiplication is commutative.