[EM] Symmetry and Condorcet

[Forest Simmons]

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

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