Duality (Mathematics)

• In one group of dualities, the concepts and theorems of a certain mathematical theory are mechanically translated into other concepts and theorems of the same theory. The prototypical example here is the duality in projective geometry: given any theorem in plane projective geometry, exchanging the terms "point" and "line" everywhere results in a new, equally valid theorem. Other examples include:
• De Morgan dual in logic
• duality in order theory
• dual polyhedron
• dual problem in optimization theory
• In another group of dualities, the objects of one theory are translated into objects of another theory and the morphisms between objects in the first theory are translated into morphisms in the second theory, but with direction reversed. Using a duality of this type, every statement in the first theory can be translated into a "dual" statement in the second theory, where the direction of all arrows has to be reversed. For the general notion in category theory that underlies these dualities, see duality (category theory) and dual (category theory). Examples include:
• dual spaces in linear algebra
• Pontryagin duality, relating certain abelian groups to other abelian groups
• Stone duality, relating Boolean algebras to certain topological spaces
• Theorems showing that certain objects of interest are the dual spaces (in the sense of linear algebra) of other objects of interest are also often called dualities. Examples:
• Poincar duality
• Serre duality

• dual numbers, a certain associative algebra; the term "dual" here is unrelated to the notions given above.

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