cobordism
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Noun
cobordism (plural cobordisms)
- (mathematics) A connection between two manifolds of the same dimension n via a manifold of dimension , where the smaller manifolds are included in the boundary of the larger manifold.
- (mathematics) The theory and study of such objects.
- 2008 April, John R. Harper, "Generalized cohomology, by Akira Kono and Dai Tamaki" (book review), Bulletin (New Series) of the American Mathematical Society volume 45 number 2, page 310,
- Cobordism revives the intuitive idea of bounding harbored in the original work of Poincaré but later sacrificed in order to construct a viable theory based on simpicial complexes.
- 2008 April, John R. Harper, "Generalized cohomology, by Akira Kono and Dai Tamaki" (book review), Bulletin (New Series) of the American Mathematical Society volume 45 number 2, page 310,
