We introduce Q-space, the tensor product of an index space with a primary space, to achieve a more general mathematical description of correlations in terms of q-tuples. Topics discussed include the decomposition of Q-space into a sum-variable (location) subspace S plus an orthogonal difference-variable subspace D, and a systematisation of q-tuple size estimation in terms of p-norms. The GHP sum prescription for q-tuple size emerges naturally as the 2-norm of difference-space vectors. Maximum- and minimum-size prescriptions are found to be special cases of a continuum of p-sizes.
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