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symmetric bilinear form

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A symmetric bilinear form is a bilinear form which is symmetric in the two coordinates; that is, for all vectors and .

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symmetric form

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Cross-references: positive definite, vector space, real, inner product, vectors, coordinates, symmetric, bilinear form
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This is version 2 of symmetric bilinear form, born on 2002-02-22, modified 2002-04-13.
Object id is 2466, canonical name is SymmetricBilinearForm.
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AMS MSC:	11E39 (Number theory :: Forms and linear algebraic groups :: Bilinear and Hermitian forms)
	15A63 (Linear and multilinear algebra; matrix theory :: Quadratic and bilinear forms, inner products)
	47A07 (Operator theory :: General theory of linear operators :: Forms )

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