Wick rotations

A form of Wick rotation — A method of finding a solution to a mathematical problem in Minkowski space from a solution to a related problem in Euclidean space by means of a transformation that substitutes an imaginary-number variable for a real-number variable.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of Wick rotation
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