English Explanatory Dictionary

Hauptvermutung

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The conjecture, now proven false, that any two triangulations of a triangulable space have a common refinement, a single triangulation that is a subdivision of both of them.

Word forms

Hauptvermutung

Etymology

From German Hauptvermutung, from haupt- (“main, chief, primary”) + Vermutung (“conjecture”).

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