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adjectivecatenoidal (not comparable)
- not comparablemathematicsRelating to, or having the form of a catenoid
The Jorge-Meeks n-noid (n#92;ge 2) is a complete minimal surface of genus zero with n catenoidal ends in the Euclidean 3-space #92;boldsymbol#123;R#125;³, which has (2#92;pi#47;n)-rotation symmetry with respect to its axis.
2015, Shoichi Fujimori, Yu Kawakami, Masatoshi Kokubu, Wayne Rossman, Masaaki Umehara, Kotaro Yamada, “Analytic extension of Jorge-Meeks type maximal surfaces in Lorentz-Minkowski 3-space”, in arXiv
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