I am looking to formalise an algorithm that I have created, however, I am having trouble knowing how to correctly use Greek symbols (such as Epsilon, Omega etc.). Are there any guides/standardised way of doing this?
This is an example of an algorithm that was previously worked on that a college formalised.
Does a "global definition" for ω0 or μ exist, or do those symbols have to be defined in the context of the algorithm?
There are (almost) no "generally reserved greek symbols" in mathematical or algorithmic texts. The only exceptions I can think of are
Even those can have a different meaning depending on the context, but when someone uses these symbols without an explicit definition, most readers will understand them.
Of course, in some specific contexts like computational complexity theory, there are some conventions like the Big-O notation, where Ω and Θ have special meanings. But as long as your text is not in that context, you need to define any symbol you are going to use (maybe with the few exceptions mentioned above) , otherwise people will have problems to understand your text.
