Meanings
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of extremalise
On the classical field theory level, they are described by an action functional extremalising the volume of a manifold swept by a propagating membrane.
2015, Jan Vysoky, “Geometry of Membrane Sigma Models”, in arXiv
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