Opérateur laplacienL'opérateur laplacien, ou simplement le laplacien, est l'opérateur différentiel défini par l'application de l'opérateur gradient suivie de l'application de l'opérateur divergence : Intuitivement, il combine et relie la description statique d'un champ (décrit par son gradient) aux effets dynamiques (la divergence) de ce champ dans l'espace et le temps. C'est l'exemple le plus simple et le plus répandu d'opérateur elliptique.
Géométrie complexeIn mathematics, complex geometry is the study of geometric structures and constructions arising out of, or described by, the complex numbers. In particular, complex geometry is concerned with the study of spaces such as complex manifolds and complex algebraic varieties, functions of several complex variables, and holomorphic constructions such as holomorphic vector bundles and coherent sheaves. Application of transcendental methods to algebraic geometry falls in this category, together with more geometric aspects of complex analysis.
Conditional probability distributionIn probability theory and statistics, given two jointly distributed random variables and , the conditional probability distribution of given is the probability distribution of when is known to be a particular value; in some cases the conditional probabilities may be expressed as functions containing the unspecified value of as a parameter. When both and are categorical variables, a conditional probability table is typically used to represent the conditional probability.
