subprop

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English

Etymology

From sub- +‎ prop.

Noun

subprop (plural subprops)

  1. subproposition
  2. (mathematics) A prop (structure that supports a theory) that is part of another prop.
    • 2015, Sergei Merkulov, Thomas Willwacher, “Props of ribbon graphs, involutive Lie bialgebras and moduli spaces of curves”, in arXiv:
      Using a new prop of ribbon graphs and the fact that it contains the prop of involutive Lie bialgebras as a subprop we find new algebraic structures on the classical ribbon graph complex computing .