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  2. Hypersurface - Wikipedia

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    In geometry, a hypersurface is a generalization of the concepts of hyperplane, plane curve, and surface.A hypersurface is a manifold or an algebraic variety of dimension n − 1, which is embedded in an ambient space of dimension n, generally a Euclidean space, an affine space or a projective space. [1]

  3. Hyperplane - Wikipedia

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    In geometry, a hyperplane of an n-dimensional space V is a subspace of dimension n − 1, or equivalently, of codimension 1 in V.The space V may be a Euclidean space or more generally an affine space, or a vector space or a projective space, and the notion of hyperplane varies correspondingly since the definition of subspace differs in these settings; in all cases however, any hyperplane can ...

  4. Contact geometry - Wikipedia

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    A consequence of the definition is that the restriction of the 2-form ω = dα to a hyperplane in ξ is a nondegenerate 2-form. This construction provides any contact manifold M with a natural symplectic bundle of rank one smaller than the dimension of M. Note that a symplectic vector space is always even-dimensional, while contact manifolds ...

  5. Complex lamellar vector field - Wikipedia

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    In the broader context of differential geometry, complex lamellar vector fields are more often called hypersurface-orthogonal vector fields. They can be characterized in a number of different ways, many of which involve the curl. A lamellar vector field is a special case given by vector fields with zero curl.

  6. Plateau's problem - Wikipedia

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    In the hypersurface case where =, singularities occur only for . An example of such singular solution of the Plateau problem is the Simons cone , a cone over S 3 × S 3 {\displaystyle S^{3}\times S^{3}} in R 8 {\displaystyle \mathbb {R} ^{8}} that was first described by Jim Simons and was shown to be an area minimizer by Bombieri , De Giorgi ...

  7. Complete intersection - Wikipedia

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    Geometrically, each F i defines a hypersurface; the intersection of these hypersurfaces should be V. The intersection of n − m hypersurfaces will always have dimension at least m, assuming that the field of scalars is an algebraically closed field such as the complex numbers.

  8. Fano variety - Wikipedia

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    The hypersurface D is therefore Fano if and only if deg(D) < n+1. More generally, a smooth complete intersection of hypersurfaces in n-dimensional projective space is Fano if and only if the sum of their degrees is at most n. Weighted projective space P(a 0,...,a n) is a singular Fano variety.

  9. Quadric - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, a quadric or quadric surface (quadric hypersurface in higher dimensions), is a generalization of conic sections (ellipses, parabolas, and hyperbolas).It is a hypersurface (of dimension D) in a (D + 1)-dimensional space, and it is defined as the zero set of an irreducible polynomial of degree two in D + 1 variables; for example, D = 1 in the case of conic sections.