Talk:Vanish at infinity

Latest comment: 9 years ago by Lenacore in topic Capital F

Capital F

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what does the "capital F" notation stand for? is a brief description needed?Brad7777 (talk) 14:45, 6 November 2011 (UTC)Reply

Are you talking about   in
  (where   is one of  ?
As the article exlains,   is a stand-in for one of the fields   and  , with "F" probably intended to be reminiscent of field. This usage is quite common. (Though the symbol   is probably even more commonly used in the same function, with "K" för Körper, the german term for field.) — Tobias Bergemann (talk) 13:46, 8 November 2011 (UTC)Reply
Well... I guess no one will complain if I change it from   to the more commonly used  , right? Many people like to use   for finite fields (or at least fields of non-zero characteristic)... Lenacore (talk) 12:32, 11 March 2015 (UTC)Reply