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Questions of the kind "What's the name for a X that satisfies property Y?"

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Terminology: Algebras where long strings of products are 0?

This terminology is very standard. …
The Amplitwist's user avatar
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What do you call a scaled orthogonal map?

Wikipedia suggests "conformal orthogonal group" for the group of all such maps; see the articles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conformal_group https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthogonal_group#Conformal_ …
Vladimir Dotsenko's user avatar
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Name for algebra and its tensor products

As requested, I elaborate on my comment. First of all, let me make a change of variables $a_i=U_i-1$. The relations then become $a_i+1=a_{i-1}a_{i+1}$. For $n=2,3,4$ I used the Magma online calcula …
Vladimir Dotsenko's user avatar
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Does the ring generated by the odd power sum symmetric functions have a name?

Darij gave a very good reference indeed. One other instance where I saw this before is the Maple package SF, where they talk about "signed class functions" (http://www.math.lsa.umich.edu/~jrs/software …
Vladimir Dotsenko's user avatar
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Terminology for a cyclically ordered set of objects

If your objects that sit at distinct points along a circle are all elements of some set $L$, and repetitions are allowed, the term "cyclic words in the alphabet $L$" is fairly commonly used. If no rep …
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Total exterior Product

I believe what is meant by this is the usual external tensor product: if $p_1$ and $p_2$ are projections from $V_1\times V_2$ to $V_1$ and $V_2$ respectively, the external tensor product $\mathcal{F}_ …
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