Antilinear map

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In mathematics, a mapping f : VW from a complex vector space to another is said to be antilinear (or conjugate-linear or semilinear) if

f(ax+by)=\bar{a}f(x)+\bar{b}f(y)

for all a, b in C and all x, y in V. The composition of two antilinear maps is complex-linear.

An antilinear map f:V\to W may be equivalently described in terms of the linear map \bar f:V\to\bar W to the complex conjugate vector space \bar W.

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