Unipotent

The term "unipotent" can refer to a few different contexts in mathematics, particularly in linear algebra and algebraic groups, and in biology.

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An element

u

of a ring is unipotent when

u - 1

is nilpotent. For a matrix, this says that every eigenvalue is one. A unipotent algebraic group consists of unipotent elements in a faithful linear representation.

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