dreibein

D2R1E1I1B3E1I1N1

noun

Trihedron.

Scrabble 11

Meanings

noundreibein (plural dreibeins)

plural dreibeins

  1. mathematicsTrihedron.

    Three orthonormal vectors #92;hat#123;l#125;, #92;hat#123;e#125;#123;(1)#125; and #92;hat#123;e#125;#123;(2)#125; form the dreiben - a local physical coordinate frame of the A-phase vacuum.

    1992, G. E. Volovik, Exotic Properties of Superfluid 3He, page 21
    1 more example

    This is shown for the following canonical sectors: i) a conformally invariant generic description where the spinor field and the dreibein are locally rescaled; ii) a specific configuration for the Dirac fermion consistent with its spin, where Weyl symmetry is exchanged by time reparametrizations; iii) the vacuum sector 1, which is of interest for perturbation theory.

    2016, Alfredo Guevara, Pablo Pais, Jorge Zanelli, “Dynamical Contents of Unconventional Supersymmetry”, in arXiv

Origin

  1. GermanDreibein
  2. Englishdreibein

From German Dreibein.

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