English Explanatory Dictionary

Hopf number

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An integer-valued topological invariant that quantifies the linking of preimages in continuous maps from the 3-sphere to the 2-sphere.

Word forms

Hopf number Hopf numbers

Synonyms

Hopf invariant
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