自じ己こ共きょう役やく

noun, na-adjective

self-adjoint

Mathematics term for an operator or matrix equal to its own adjoint (Hermitian in complex spaces). Used in functional analysis and linear algebra.

• 自じ己こ共きょう役やく作さ用よう素そは量りょう子し力りき学がくで重じゅう要ような役やく割わりを果はたす。

  Self-adjoint operators play an important role in quantum mechanics.

• この行ぎょう列れつが自じ己こ共きょう役やくであることを示しめせ。

  Show that this matrix is self-adjoint.