Meanings
nounKähler manifold (plural Kähler manifolds)
plural Kähler manifolds
- differential geometryA manifold with three mutually compatible structures: a complex structure, a Riemannian structure, and a symplectic structure.
Origin
Introduced by Erich Kähler in 1933, though the concept had been studied by others a few years earlier.
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