orthogonal spaces
orthogonal spaces
[ȯr¦thäg·ən·əl ′spās·əz] (mathematics)
Two subspaces F and F ′ of a vector space E with a scalar product g such that g (x, x ′) = 0 for any x in F and x ′ in F ′.
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