English Explanatory Dictionary

Gromov-Witten invariant

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A rational number that, in certain situations, counts pseudoholomorphic curves meeting prescribed conditions in a given symplectic manifold. They have applications in string theory.

Word forms

Gromov-Witten invariant Gromov-Witten invariants

Etymology

Named after Mikhail Gromov and Edward Witten.

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