Reeb component

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A solid torus whose boundary is a leaf of a foliation of the ambient 3-dimensional manifold.

Word forms

Reeb component Reeb components

Etymology

Introduced by the French mathematician Georges Reeb (1920–1992).

Derived words

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