hypercontinuum

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noun

The set of all subsets of a set of with the (infinite) cardinality of the continuum.

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Meanings

nounhypercontinuum (plural hypercontinua)

plural hypercontinua

  1. mathematicsThe set of all subsets of a set of with the (infinite) cardinality of the continuum.

    We show that negative iterates of a stable arc converges to this hypercontinuum in the considered metric.

    2015, Alfonso Artigue, “Pseudo-Anosov maps and continuum theory”, in arXiv

Origin

From hyper- + continuum.

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