English Explanatory Dictionary

hopfion

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A knot in a three-dimensional continuous unit vector field that cannot be unknotted without cutting

Word forms

hopfion hopfions

Etymology

Blend of Hopfian + soliton.

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