How may different orthants are there in R 1 0 ?
Clarification : An orthant the analogue in n -dimensional Euclidean space of a quadrant in the plane or an octant in three dimensions.
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I guess you can't really call them "quadrants" then ;) In 3-D they are called octants
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Thank you sir..! Is there any general name for quadrant or octant or so, please?
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Yes the general term is orthant or hyperoctant . Most mathematicians prefer hyperoctant, I suppose, since the usage of "hyper-" in this context follows a pattern of taking a 3-D term and generalizing it to n-space, as in hyperplane or hypersphere.
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@Otto Bretscher – Thanks again..! I have edited the question..
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@Zeeshan Ali – I was not really serious about my remark. It just sounds funny to have 1024 quadrants of something ;)
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@Otto Bretscher – Well... of course ..!
@Otto Bretscher – It is all about "Fun..!" on brilliant.org :)
In accordance to Bosonic string theory, there exist 2 6 dimensions of space time. Does it conclude that there exist 2 2 6 orthants in space time?
@Michael Mendrin @Otto Bretscher
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Well... I think .. Yes! :)
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@Zeeshan Ali – I am in doubt because of considering time as a dimension.
No! We are talking about a 26 dimensional manifold here, not 26 dimensional Euclidean space. In the context of a manifold, the notion of orthants does not make sense. (Does a torus have four quadrants?)
Aren't the 26 dimension actually not of space-time? Meaning that there are 3 dimensions of space, and one temporal dimension (in terms of the math). So the rest of the 22 are more so hyperspace I think...
You can distill the solution down to the basics. We know that a quadrant, octant, etc... Can be defined as a permutation of the values +or - assigned to the number of dimensions n in R n . Therefore, there exist 2 n orthants in R n .
I think you should change the link to wikipedia because the answer is there
Well... right ! Thank you very much ..
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In R 2 , there are 2 2 = 4 different quadrants .
In R 3 , there are 2 3 = 8 different octants .
In R 4 , there are 2 4 = 1 6 different orthants.
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In R 1 0 , there are 2 1 0 = 1 0 2 4 different orthants.
Generalization:
Let R n be the n − d i m e n s i o n a l space. Then there are 2 n different orthants .