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In mathematics, the complex conjugate of a complex number is the number with an equal real part and an imaginary part equal in magnitude but opposite in sign. That is, if a {\displaystyle a} and b {\displaystyle b} are real numbers, then the complex conjugate of a + b i {\displaystyle a+bi} is a − b i . {\displaystyle a-bi.}
As (+) = and (+) + =, the sum and the product of conjugate expressions do not involve the square root anymore. This property is used for removing a square root from a denominator, by multiplying the numerator and the denominator of a fraction by the conjugate of the denominator (see Rationalisation).
In mathematics, the complex conjugate of a complex vector space is a complex vector space ¯ that has the same elements and additive group structure as , but whose scalar multiplication involves conjugation of the scalars.
In mathematics, the complex conjugate root theorem states that if P is a polynomial in one variable with real coefficients, and a + bi is a root of P with a and b real numbers, then its complex conjugate a − bi is also a root of P. [1]
The conjugate transpose of a matrix with real entries reduces to the transpose of , as the conjugate of a real number is the number itself. The conjugate transpose can be motivated by noting that complex numbers can be usefully represented by 2 × 2 {\displaystyle 2\times 2} real matrices, obeying matrix addition and multiplication: [ 3 ]
Two elements , are conjugate if there exists an element such that =, in which case is called a conjugate of and is called a conjugate of . In the case of the general linear group GL ( n ) {\displaystyle \operatorname {GL} (n)} of invertible matrices , the conjugacy relation is called matrix similarity .
In mathematics, in particular field theory, the conjugate elements or algebraic conjugates of an algebraic element α, over a field extension L/K, are the roots of the minimal polynomial p K,α (x) of α over K. Conjugate elements are commonly called conjugates in contexts where this is not ambiguous.
They are arranged so that images under the reflection about the main diagonal of the square are conjugate partitions. Partitions of n with largest part k In number theory and combinatorics , a partition of a non-negative integer n , also called an integer partition , is a way of writing n as a sum of positive integers .