submultiplicative en · ADJ
Etymology
From sub- + multiplicative.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Having the property ‖AB‖≤‖A‖‖B‖
The partition functions of these models may satisfy a variety of super- or submultiplicative inequalities, and these may be reduced to a subadditive relation by taking logarithms, and changing signs, if necessary.
2016, EJ Janse van Rensburg, “Subadditivity in models of interacting lattice clusters”, in arXiv: