Evectant

In mathematical invariant theory, an evectant is a contravariant constructed from an invariant by acting on it with a differential operator called an evector. Evectants and evectors were introduced by Sylvester (1854, p.95).

References

• Sylvester, James Joseph (1853), "On the calculus of forms, otherwise the theory of invariants", The Cambridge and Dublin Mathematical Journal 8: 257–269, http://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?PPN600493962_0008 
• Sylvester, James Joseph (1854), "On the calculus of forms, otherwise the theory of invariants", The Cambridge and Dublin Mathematical Journal 9: 85–103, http://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?PPN600493962_0008