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Annihilating space
In mathematics, the annihilator or annihilating space (or sometimes polar space) Xannihilator of a subspace X of a vector space S with a bilinear operator b, is defined by
If the bilinear operator is a metric tensor, then the annihilating space is called the orthogonal complement.
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