Meanings
adjectiveplabic (not comparable)
- not comparablegraph theoryplanar and bicoloured
Of course, as illustrated in the example above, merely reordering the face variables of a fixed plabic graph by an odd permutation will change the orientation of the resulting volume-form.
2016, Nima Arkani-Hamed, Grassmannian Geometry of Scattering Amplitudes, page 116
Origin
Blend of planar + bicoloured.
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