symmetric transformation
symmetric transformation
[sə¦me·trik ‚tranz·fər′mā·shən] (mathematics)
A transformation T defined on a Hilbert space such that the inner products (x, Ty) and (Tx, y) are equal for any vectors x and y in the domain of T.
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