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In my experience (as a physicist), the dagger is much more common in physics literature to represent adjoint; A^* for adjoint is confusing because it could just
by cshimmin 7y ago
In my experience (as a physicist), the dagger is much more common in physics literature to represent adjoint; A^* for adjoint is confusing because it could just mean complex conjugation in many contexts. Overlines are practically never used physics notation.
- jordigh 7y agoI figured the notational confusion between the Hermitian transpose and the complex conjugate is kind of intentional, since moving from one side to the other of an inner product both conjugates scalars and is the adjoint of matrices, plus AA* is "real squaring" for both matrices and scalars.