postcompose
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editpostcompose (third-person singular simple present postcomposes, present participle postcomposing, simple past and past participle postcomposed)
- (transitive, mathematics) To apply (an operation) after another operation has occurred.
- 2022, Helmut Hofer, Alberto Abbondandolo, Urs Frauenfelder, Symplectic Geometry, page 64:
- If we postcompose the embedding ɩ with a dilation by a factor of t, the algebraic growth Γ will obviously not change but the group will be generated by loops of length λ(tɩL) = tλ (ɩL), implying that ΓT(#Pg1( tɩ, T ) ) → ∞ as t→ 0.