paracontact

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noun

Having the property that every open cover has an open refinement that is locally finite.

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Meanings

noun
  1. mathematicsHaving the property that every open cover has an open refinement that is locally finite.

    The main purpose of this paper is to give some results in paracontact geometry obtained by the existence of a harmonic map..

    2015, S. K. Srivastava, K. Srivastava, “Harmonic maps on paracontact manifolds”, in arXiv

Origin

From para- + contact.

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