Liouville's formula
English
editEtymology
editNamed after the French mathematician Joseph Liouville.
Proper noun
edit- (mathematics) An equation, a generalization of Abel's identity, that expresses the determinant of a square-matrix solution of a first-order system of homogeneous linear differential equations in terms of the sum of the diagonal coefficients of the system.
- Synonym: Abel-Jacobi-Liouville identity