compactification — Dicionário de inglês

Substantivo

1. Any of various procedures of enlarging a topological space to make it compact.

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   • contável
   • incontável

2. The space resulting from any such procedure.

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   • contável
   • incontável

3. Any modification of a theory such that an infinite parameter becomes finite.

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   • contável
   • incontável

4. The reduction of the number of large spacetime dimensions of a physical theory by making some of them compact.

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   • contável
   • incontável