antimorphism

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English

Etymology

From anti- +‎ morphism.

Noun

antimorphism (plural antimorphisms)

  1. (mathematics) An isomorphism of a mathematical object or system of objects such that the image of a product of two values is the same as the product of the images of the two values in reverse order.
    • 1960, Indian Mathematical Society, Journal: New series, volume 24, page 602:
      The transform uλ of an element u of A by an automorphism or antimorphism of A has the same spectrum Su and the same minimal polynomial as u, and is semisimple if u is so.
    • 2007, Michael Winter, Goguen Categories: A Categorical Approach to L-fuzzy Relations, page 26:
      The meet of a set of antimorphisms is again an antimorphism.