Block - Mathematics

Mathematics

  • Aschbacher block of a finite group
  • Block design, a kind of set system in combinatorial mathematics
  • Block (permutation group theory)
  • Block of a ring, a centrally primitive idempotent or the ideal it generates
  • Block in modular representation theory
  • In graph theory, a maximally 2-connected subgraph or a bridge with its endvertices
  • Blocks are the elements of a block matrix

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