Plücker embedding

English

Etymology

Named after the German mathematician Julius Plücker.

Noun

Plücker embedding (plural Plücker embeddings)

(mathematics) A method of realizing the Grassmannian $Gr_{k}(V)$ of all k-dimensional subspaces of an n-dimensional vector space V as a subvariety of a projective space.

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