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pseudounitary

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Etymology

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From pseudo- +‎ unitary.

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pseudounitary (not comparable)

  1. (mathematics) Preserving Hermitian indefinite forms.
    • 2016, Jerzy Kocik, “Cromlech, menhirs and celestial sphere: an unusual representation of the Lorentz group”, in arXiv[1]:
      We present a novel representation of the Lorentz group, the geometric version of which uses "reversions" of a sphere while the algebraic version uses pseudounitary 2x2 matrices over complex numbers and quaternions, and Clifford algebras in general.