Mexican hat

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For the town, see Mexican Hat, Utah.

In general, a Mexican hat is a sombrero – a broad-brimmed and high-crowned hat formerly used in rural areas of Mexico and still common today among mariachi musicians and foreign tourists.

Mexican hat may also refer to:

• The Jarabe tapatío (the "Mexican Hat Dance")
• In physics, the Mexican hat potential is a prescription for the potential energy that leads to the Higgs mechanism.
• In signal processing Mexican hat wavelet is a continuous wavelet function.
• Mexican Hat, a census-designated place in Utah, USA and/or the balanced rock nearby that resembles an inverted sombrero.
• A Southwestern wildflower, Ratibida columnifera, also called Ratibida columnaris or Upright Prairie Coneflower.