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Semigroup with involution
In mathematics, particularly in abstract algebra, a semigroup with involution or a *-semigroup is a semigroup equipped with an involutive anti-automorphism, which—roughly speaking—brings it closer to a group because this involution, considered as unary operator, exhibits certain fundamental properties of the operation of taking the inverse in a group: uniqueness, double application "cancelling itself out", and the same interaction law with the binary operation as in the case of the group inverse.
Dagger compact category
In , a branch of mathematics, dagger compact categories (or dagger compact closed categories) first appeared in 1989 in the work of Sergio Doplicher and John E. Roberts on the reconstruction of compact topological groups from their category of finite-dimensional continuous unitary representations (that is, ). They also appeared in the work of John Baez and James Dolan as an instance of semistrict k-tuply , which describe general topological quantum field theories, for n = 1 and k = 3.
Relation inverse
In mathematics, the converse relation, or transpose, of a binary relation is the relation that occurs when the order of the elements is switched in the relation. For example, the converse of the relation 'child of' is the relation 'parent of'. In formal terms, if and are sets and is a relation from to then is the relation defined so that if and only if In set-builder notation, The notation is analogous with that for an inverse function. Although many functions do not have an inverse, every relation does have a unique converse.
Involution (mathématiques)
En mathématiques, une involution est une application bijective qui est sa propre réciproque, c'est-à-dire par laquelle chaque élément est l'image de son image. C'est le cas par exemple du changement de signe dans l'ensemble des nombres réels, ou des symétries du plan ou de l'espace en géométrie euclidienne. En algèbre linéaire, les endomorphismes involutifs sont d'ailleurs appelés symétries. Des involutions apparaissent dans de nombreux domaines des mathématiques, notamment en combinatoire et en topologie.