involutant

English

Noun

involutant (plural involutants)

1. (mathematics) Given two matrices M, N of order w, the involutant is the resultant of the w² scalar equations obtained by equating to zero a linear function with scalar coefficients of the w² matrices which result from multiplying 1, m m², ... m^w-1 into 1, n, n², ... n^w-1.