self-adjoint

adj — 2 senses

self-adjoint

adj

Etymology From self- + adjoint.

1

Mathematics, Sciences Adjoint to itself.

2

Being a Hilbert space operator which is Hermitian and also whose eigenvectors span the entire Hilbert space.

Functional analysis

Derived terms
self-adjointness

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