Whatever we use here for matrices, I'd like to do the same thing for vectors over CDF (see related post from a few minutes ago). "conjugate_transpose" is a bit odd for vectors, since Sage carries no notion of vectors being rows or columns. And it wouldn't make sense to me to use .adjoint() on a vector if we didn't use it on matrices.
Proposal: How do folks feel about using .star() for matrices and vectors as a shorthand/alias for .conjugate_transpose() and .conjugate() (respectively)? Pros: 1) A star is a very common notation for this. It is not universal, but I think the variants (H, a dagger) are more common in other fields (like physics). 2) Short. 3) No ambiguity about its past. 4) It does not appear to be used elsewhere as a method or function name (and only a few places as a keyword). Cons: 1) Highly non-obvious. 2) Others? Rob -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
