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For a linear subspace $F$ of a Hilbert space,Thus $F=F^{\perp \perp }$ exactly when $F$ is closed.

The free monoid ${\Sigma }^{\ast }$ on an alphabet $\Sigma$ consists of all finite words over an alphabet, including the empty word $\epsilon$, with concatenation as its binary operation. Distinct strings represent distinct elements: there are no imposed equalities between different sequences of letters. The empty word is its identity element, and concatenation has the associative property.^[ref]

For $\Sigma =\{a,b\}$, the elements begin $\epsilon ,a,b,aa,ab,ba,bb,\dots$. Both $(ab)a$ and $a(ba)$ give the same word $aba$, but $ab\ne ba$, so this monoid is not commutative. The length of a word over an alphabet obeys $\ell (uv)=\ell (u)+\ell (v)$; it is a monoid homomorphism to the nonnegative integers with addition. A nonempty word has no inverse element, since joining it to any other word cannot decrease its length to zero.

The defining benefit of being free is that letters can stand for arbitrary elements of another monoid. Choose a value $h(a)$ for each letter $a\in \Sigma$; then $h(a_1\cdots a_n)=h(a_1)\ast \cdots \ast h(a_n)$, with $h(\epsilon )=e$, is the unique monoid homomorphism extending those choices. Associativity and the identity element make this evaluation consistent for every finite word. For example, interpreting the letters as self-maps evaluates a word as a composed transformation; interpreting them as nonnegative counts evaluates it by addition.

The degree-four rational map $F(z)=z^2+z^{-2}$ has branch values $-2,2,\infty$. Away from their inverse images, the transformationsare commuting deck involutions. They generate a Klein four-group acting transitively on each fibreConsequently the monodromy group is $V_4$, acting by the identity and the three double transpositions.

In a minimal deterministic finite automaton accepting a finite language, any state lying on a nonempty directed cycle is the unique rejecting sink state. It cannot reach an accept state, since traversing the cycle arbitrarily many times would produce infinitely many accepted words. Every state reachable from it also rejects every continuation, so minimality forces all such states to be the same state.

In a local orthonormal frame $(e_i)$, write $\nabla e_j=A^i{}_j{e}_i$. Metric compatibility and $d⟨e_i,e_j⟩=0$ giveThus the connection one-form of a real metric connection takes values in the skew-symmetric matrices.

The Lubell mass of a set family $\mathcal{A}\subseteq \mathcal{P}([n])$ isIt is the expected value of the number of members of $\mathcal{A}$ on a Uniformly random maximal chain in a Boolean lattice.

The contrapositive of a logical implication $A\to B$ reverses the direction and applies logical negation to both sides: $\neg B\to \neg A$. In classical propositional logic they are equivalent, so either can be proved in place of the other. The contrapositive of “divisibility by four implies being an even number” says that a number that is not an even number cannot be divisible by four.

In Intuitionistic propositional logic, $A\to B$ still implies its contrapositive: assumptions $A$ and $\neg B$ would yield $B$ and hence a contradiction. The reverse direction is not generally valid. From $\neg B\to \neg A$ and $A$, one obtains only $\neg \neg B$; obtaining $B$ additionally requires double-negation elimination.

A line bundle $L$ is ample when some positive tensor power $L^{\otimes m}$ is very ample.