biorthonormal

English

Etymology

From bi- +‎ orthonormal.

Adjective

biorthonormal (not comparable)

1. (mathematics, of two sets) Orthonormal and having elements that are each orthogonal to all but exactly one element in the other set.
   • 2016, C. Li, G. Zhang, Z. Song, “Chern number in Ising models with spatially modulated real and complex fields”, in arXiv‎^[1]:

     Based on the exact solution, we find that the spatially modulated real and complex fields rearrange the phase boundaries from that of the ordinary Ising model, which can be characterized by the Chern numbers defined in the context of Dirac and biorthonormal inner products, respectively..

Derived terms

• biorthonormality