Adjoint
title: "Adjoint" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["mathematical-terminology"] topic_path: "general/mathematical-terminology" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adjoint" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
In mathematics, the term adjoint applies in several situations. Several of these share a similar formalism: if A is adjoint to B, then there is typically some formula of the type :(Ax, y) = (x, By).
Specifically, adjoint or adjunction may mean:
- Adjoint of a linear map, also called its transpose in case of matrices
- Hermitian adjoint (adjoint of a linear operator) in functional analysis
- Adjoint endomorphism of a Lie algebra
- Adjoint representation of a Lie group
- Adjoint functors in category theory
- Adjunction (field theory)
- Adjunction formula (algebraic geometry)
- Adjunction space in topology
- Conjugate transpose of a matrix in linear algebra
- Adjugate matrix, related to its inverse
- Adjoint equation
- The upper and lower adjoints of a Galois connection in order theory
- The adjoint of a differential operator with general polynomial coefficients
- Kleisli adjunction
- Monoidal adjunction
- Quillen adjunction
- Axiom of adjunction in set theory
- Adjunction (rule of inference)
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