In invariant theory, a branch of algebra, given a group G, a covariant is a G-equivariant polynomial map
→
between linear representations V, W of G.[1] It is a generalization of a classical convariant,[clarification needed] which is a homogeneous polynomial map from the space of binary m-forms to the space of binary p-forms (over the complex numbers) that is
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