English Explanatory Dictionary

deformation retract

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A subspace such that there is a retraction onto it of the ambient space homotopic to the identity function on the ambient space.
verb
  1. To have a deformation retract as a subspace.

Word forms

deformation retract deformation retracts deformation-retract deformation retracting deformation retracted
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