subprop

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noun

subproposition

Scrabble 13

Meanings

nounsubprop (plural subprops)

plural subprops

  1. mathematicsA prop (structure that supports a theory) that is part of another prop.

    Using a new prop of ribbon graphs and the fact that it contains the prop of involutive Lie bialgebras as a subprop we find new algebraic structures on the classical ribbon graph complex computing H#92;bullet(#92;mathcalM#95;#123;g,n#125;).

    2015, Sergei Merkulov, Thomas Willwacher, “Props of ribbon graphs, involutive Lie bialgebras and moduli spaces of curves”, in arXiv

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