eigenoperator

English

Etymology

From eigen- +‎ operator.

Noun

eigenoperator (plural eigenoperators)

1. (mathematics) An operator (endomorphism) involving an eigenvalue
   • 2015, James Haglund, Jeffrey Remmel, Andrew Timothy Wilson, “The Delta Conjecture”, in arXiv‎^[1]:

     We conjecture two combinatorial interpretations for the symmetric function $\Delta _{e_{k}}e_{n}$, where $\Delta _{f}$ is an eigenoperator for the modified Macdonald polynomials defined by Garsia and Haiman.