compactification
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English
Etymology
From compact + -ification.
Noun
compactification (countable and uncountable, plural compactifications)
- (topology) Any of various procedures of enlarging a topological space to make it compact.
- (topology) The space resulting from any such procedure.
- (physics) Any modification of a theory such that an infinite parameter becomes finite.
- (physics) The reduction of the number of large spacetime dimensions of a physical theory by making some of them compact.
Derived terms
- beta-compactification
- decompactification
- Freund-Rubin compactification
- Stone-Čech compactification
- Wallman compactification
Translations
procedure of enlarging a topological space to make it compact
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topological space enlarged to become compact
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physics: modification of a theory so that an infinite parameter becomes finite
Further reading
compactification on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
