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Ordered pairs of scalars are sometimes called 2-dimensional vectors. (Technically, this is an abuse of terminology since an ordered pair need not be an element of a vector space.) The entries of an ordered pair can be other ordered pairs, enabling the recursive definition of ordered n-tuples (ordered lists of n objects).
A two-vector or bivector [1] is a tensor of type () and it is the dual of a two-form, meaning that it is a linear functional which maps two-forms to the real numbers (or more generally, to scalars). The tensor product of a pair of vectors is a two-vector.
A vector may also result from the evaluation, at a particular instant, of a continuous vector-valued function (e.g., the pendulum equation). In the natural sciences, the term "vector quantity" also encompasses vector fields defined over a two-or three-dimensional region of space, such as wind velocity over Earth's surface.
Since ε 2 = 0 for dual numbers, exp(aε) = 1 + aε, all other terms of the exponential series vanishing. Let F = {1 + εr : r ∈ H}, ε 2 = 0. Note that F is stable under the rotation q → p −1 qp and under the translation (1 + εr)(1 + εs) = 1 + ε(r + s) for any vector quaternions r and s. F is a 3-flat in the eight-dimensional space of ...
In mathematics and physics, vector notation is a commonly used notation for representing vectors, [1] [2] which may be Euclidean vectors, or more generally, members of a vector space. For denoting a vector, the common typographic convention is lower case, upright boldface type, as in v .
In mathematics, a dual system, dual pair or a duality over a field is a triple (,,) consisting of two vector spaces, and , over and a non-degenerate bilinear map:. In mathematics , duality is the study of dual systems and is important in functional analysis .
Given a vector at the north pole, one can transport this vector along a curve by rotating the sphere in such a way that the north pole moves along the curve without axial rolling. This latter means of parallel transport is the Levi-Civita connection on the sphere.
For ranks greater than two, the symmetric or antisymmetric index pairs must be explicitly identified. Antisymmetric tensors of rank 2 play important roles in relativity theory. The set of all such tensors - often called bivectors - forms a vector space of dimension 6, sometimes called bivector space.