English Explanatory Dictionary

Dehn surgery

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The removal of a solid torus from a 3-dimensional manifold, followed by its being replaced via a homeomorphism of its boundary.
  2. The same, but with the manifold in question being the 3-dimensional sphere.

Word forms

Dehn surgery Dehn surgeries

Etymology

Named after Max Dehn.

This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.
Back to search All on D Russian dictionary Dahl dictionary