On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Alex Small wrote: > Forest Simmons said: > > Could we consider this a canonical reduction of some type? > > Do you mean "canonical transformation"? You mentioned variational > principles in another post, which are related to canonical transformations > in Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics. >
I was thinking more along the lines of the row reduced echelon form of a set of equivalent matrices, or the reduced form of a set of equivalent fractions, but canonical transformations form another (more esoteric) example of the same kind. Forest ---- For more information about this list (subscribe, unsubscribe, FAQ, etc), please see http://www.eskimo.com/~robla/em
