Q-analog
TYPE OF MATHEMATICAL GENERALIZATION SUCH THAT THE ORIGINAL VERSION IS THE LIMIT AS Q APPROACHES 1
Q-analogue; Q-analogs; Q-deformation; Q-analogues; Q-integer; Q theory
In mathematics, a q-analog of a theorem, identity or expression is a generalization involving a new parameter q that returns the original theorem, identity or expression in the limit as . Typically, mathematicians are interested in q-analogs that arise naturally, rather than in arbitrarily contriving q-analogs of known results.