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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. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. Killing horizon - Wikipedia

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    After Hawking showed that quantum field theory in curved spacetime (without reference to the Einstein field equations) predicted that a black hole formed by collapse will emit thermal radiation, it became clear that there is an unexpected connection between spacetime geometry (Killing horizons) and thermal effects for quantum fields. In ...

  9. 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 ...