Etymology

Kähler manifold

Today it means: A manifold with three mutually compatible structures: a complex structure, a Riemannian structure, and a symplectic structure. Full definition →

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Introduced by Erich Kähler in 1933, though the concept had been studied by others a few years earlier.

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