Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Framed or conceived after the pattern or form of one's self.
  • In mathematics, characterized by automorphism. See automorphism, 2.
  • Same as idiomorphic.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Patterned after one's self.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective geology Describing a mineral, in an igneous rock, that is bounded by its own crystal face; euhedral, idiomorphic
  • adjective mathematics Describing a number whose square ends in the number itself; circular
  • adjective mathematics Of or pertaining to automorphy or an automorphism

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Examples

  • Structurally, the problem is this: - We have an algebra of observables together with an automorphic action of time evolutions on it (and possibly some symmetry groups).

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  • I am not one to judge, but I would assume that Andy Schlafly doesn't understand what automorphic forms are, what the FL says, or have any standing to comment on a mathematical proof.

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  • That got me slightly worried, so I asked whether they were understandable if you didn't know what an automorphic form was.

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  • Her efforts combined tools as diverse as hyperbolic geometry, classical methods of automorphic forms and symplectic reduction to obtain results on three different mathematical questions.

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  • JM wants to make a new automorphic but has lost the pattern

    June 17, 2010