Pairing - Slightly Different Usages of The Notion of Pairing

Slightly Different Usages of The Notion of Pairing

Scalar products on complex vector spaces are sometimes called pairings, although they are not bilinear. For example, in representation theory, one has a scalar product on the characters of complex representations of a finite group which is frequently called character pairing.

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