formal power series

C21868
concept

A formal power series is an infinite sum of terms \(a_n x^n\) treated purely algebraically, without concern for convergence, where coefficients \(a_n\) come from a given ring or field.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
formal power series canonical 2
series expansion 2
series representation 1

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: formal power series
Generated description
A formal power series is an infinite sum of terms \(a_n x^n\) treated purely algebraically, without concern for convergence, where coefficients \(a_n\) come from a given ring or field.

Instances (5)

Instance Via concept surface
Hahn series
Born expansion of Green’s function series representation
Fourier series series expansion
Puiseux series
Mayer cluster expansion in statistical mechanics
surface form: Mayer cluster expansion
series expansion