diffeomorphism

[ dif-ee-oh-mawr-fiz-uhm ]

noun

, Mathematics.

1. a differentiable homeomorphism.

Word History and Origins

Origin of diffeomorphism¹

By contraction

Example Sentences

One of them, known as the Arnold conjecture, predicts that Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms have a surprisingly large number of “fixed” points, which don’t move during a transformation.

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