dessins d'enfant

A form of dessin d'enfant — A type of graph embedding used to study Riemann surfaces and to provide combinatorial invariants for the action of the absolute Galois group of the rational numbers.

Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of dessin d'enfant
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