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Bingham distribution (400 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Christopher Bingham, is an antipodally symmetric probability distribution on the n-sphere. It is a generalization of the Watson distribution and a special case of
Manifold (9,555 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
normal bundle. The n-sphere Sn is a generalisation of the idea of a circle (1-sphere) and sphere (2-sphere) to higher dimensions. An n-sphere Sn can be constructed
Homotopy sphere (203 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
is homotopy equivalent to the n-sphere. It thus has the same homotopy groups and the same homology groups as the n-sphere, and so every homotopy sphere
Homology sphere (1,530 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
a homology sphere is an n-manifold X having the homology groups of an n-sphere, for some integer n ≥ 1 {\displaystyle n\geq 1} . That is, H 0 ( X , Z
Eilenberg–Mazur swindle (1,099 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
an addition operation given by connected sum, with 0 the n-sphere. If A + B is the n-sphere, then A + B + A + B + ... is Euclidean space so the Mazur
Spanier–Whitehead duality (319 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
topological space X may be considered as dual to its complement in the n-sphere, where n is large enough. Its origins lie in Alexander duality theory,
Real projective space (2,085 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
obtained by identifying antipodal points of the unit ⁠ n {\displaystyle n} ⁠-sphere, ⁠ S n {\displaystyle S^{n}} ⁠, in ⁠ R n + 1 {\displaystyle \mathbb {R}
Spherical lune (576 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In spherical geometry, a spherical lune (or biangle) is an area on a sphere bounded by two half great circles which meet at antipodal points. It is an
Lusternik–Schnirelmann category (448 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
nullhomotopic. For example, if X {\displaystyle X} is an n {\displaystyle n} -sphere, this takes the value 2 {\displaystyle 2} . Lusternik–Schnirelmann theorem
Conformal connection (222 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
arising as a deformation of the Klein geometry given by the celestial n-sphere, viewed as the homogeneous space O+(n+1,1)/P where P is the stabilizer
Vector fields on spheres (664 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
if ρ ( n ) {\displaystyle \rho (n)} is the Radon-Hurwitz number of the n-sphere (definition below), then there were at least ρ ( n ) − 1 {\displaystyle
Poincaré conjecture (5,339 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
pose the Generalized Poincaré conjecture: is a homotopy n-sphere homeomorphic to the n-sphere? A stronger assumption than simply-connectedness is necessary;
William S. Massey (443 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
mappings of an ( n + 1 ) {\displaystyle (n+1)} -dimensional space into an n-sphere, was written under the direction of Norman Steenrod. He spent two additional
Development (differential geometry) (326 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
n-sphere. The development of a conformally flat manifold is a conformal local diffeomorphism from the universal cover of the manifold to the n-sphere
Orbifold (10,277 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
1 + 1/n Sphere n > 1 1/m + 1/n Sphere n > m > 1 1/2 + 1/2n Disk n > 1 1/2m + 1/2n Disk n > m > 1 Elliptic 2 Sphere 2/n Sphere n, n 1/n Sphere 2, 2, n
John Milnor (2,069 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
differential topology. He coined the term exotic sphere, referring to any n-sphere with nonstandard differential structure. Kervaire and Milnor initiated
Irreducibility (mathematics) (568 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
written as a connected sum of two n-manifolds (neither of which is an n-sphere). An irreducible manifold is thus prime, although the converse does not
Reinhardt polygon (1,215 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
; Tamvakis, N. K. (1984), "The decomposition of the n {\displaystyle n} -sphere and the boundaries of plane convex domains", Convexity and graph theory
Jiang Zehan (487 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
275–276. T. H. Kiang (1945). "The manifolds of linear elements of an 𝑛-sphere". Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 51 (6): 418–428. doi:10
Euler characteristic (3,524 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
is even. The n-dimensional real projective space is the quotient of the n-sphere by the antipodal map. It follows that its Euler characteristic is exactly
Bishop–Gromov inequality (365 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
{\displaystyle (n-1)K} ); thus M K n {\displaystyle M_{K}^{n}} is the n-sphere of radius 1 / K {\displaystyle 1/{\sqrt {K}}} if K > 0 {\displaystyle K>0}
Suspension (topology) (1,241 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
S increases the dimension of a space by one: for example, it takes an n-sphere to an (n + 1)-sphere for n ≥ 0. Given a continuous map f : X → Y , {\displaystyle
Suspension (topology) (1,241 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
S increases the dimension of a space by one: for example, it takes an n-sphere to an (n + 1)-sphere for n ≥ 0. Given a continuous map f : X → Y , {\displaystyle
Wedge sum (747 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
to identify all of the points along the equator of an n {\displaystyle n} -sphere S n {\displaystyle S^{n}} . Doing so results in two copies of the sphere
Fiber bundle (4,154 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
associated bundle. A sphere bundle is a fiber bundle whose fiber is an n-sphere. Given a vector bundle E {\displaystyle E} with a metric (such as the tangent
Pachner moves (225 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
-simplex. ∂ Δ n + 1 {\displaystyle \partial \Delta _{n+1}} is a combinatorial n-sphere with its triangulation as the boundary of the n+1-simplex. Given a triangulated
Homotopy theory (3,827 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
classes of based maps S n → X {\displaystyle S^{n}\to X} from a (pointed) n-sphere S n {\displaystyle S^{n}} to X. As it turns out, for n ≥ 1 {\displaystyle
Sphere packing (3,546 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
is known for n ≤ 11, and only conjectural values are known for larger n. Sphere packing on the corners of a hypercube (with Hamming balls, spheres defined
Principal bundle (3,372 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
interesting examples of principal bundles. Recall that the n {\displaystyle n} -sphere S n {\displaystyle S^{n}} is a two-fold covering space of real projective
Parabolic geometry (differential geometry) (435 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
connection. Another example is the conformal sphere. Topologically, it is the n-sphere, but there is no notion of length defined on it, just of angle between
Freudenthal suspension theorem (737 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
excision, so the composition is a surjection as claimed. Let Sn denote the n-sphere and note that it is (n − 1)-connected so that the groups π n + k ( S n
Alexandroff extension (2,203 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
compactification of n-dimensional Euclidean space Rn is homeomorphic to the n-sphere Sn. As above, the map can be given explicitly as an n-dimensional inverse
Schoenflies problem (4,226 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
homeomorphic to the pair (Sn, Sn−1), where Sn−1 is the equator of the n-sphere. Brown and Mazur received the Veblen Prize for their contributions. Both
Surgery theory (3,414 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
they are different, we obtain the Klein bottle (Fig. 2c). Surgery on the n-sphere If n = p + q {\displaystyle n=p+q} , then S n = ∂ D n + 1 ≈ ∂ ( D p + 1
Handle decomposition (1,858 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
closely linked to Cerf theory. Consider the standard CW-decomposition of the n-sphere, with one zero cell and a single n-cell. From the point of view of smooth
Thom space (1,983 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
{\displaystyle E_{b}} is an n-dimensional real vector space. We can form an n-sphere bundle Sph ⁡ ( E ) → B {\displaystyle \operatorname {Sph} (E)\to B} by
Simon Huw Jones (420 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article
Trees on the website of the music club Knust in Hamburg, Germany (German) N-SPHERE November 2010 issu: Interview with Justin Jones and Simon Huw Jones, Sfere
Double (manifold) (366 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
{\displaystyle \partial M} is non-empty and M {\displaystyle M} is compact. The n-sphere is the double of the n-ball. In this context, the two balls would be the
Intermediate value theorem (4,532 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Borsuk–Ulam theorem, which says that a continuous map from the n {\displaystyle n} -sphere to Euclidean n {\displaystyle n} -space will always map some pair of antipodal
CAT(k) space (1,996 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
groups of such a space are trivial. As the example of the n {\displaystyle n} -sphere S n {\displaystyle \mathbf {S} ^{n}} shows, there is, in general, no hope
Danny Malboeuf (1,696 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
music and culture magazine. The October 2010 issue of visual arts magazine n-sphere featured Malboeuf's art on the cover and in the lead article, accompanied
Spherical cap (3,150 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Circular segment — the analogous 2D object Solid angle — contains formula for n-sphere caps Spherical segment Spherical sector Spherical wedge Polyanin, Andrei
Cobordism (5,329 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
the circle is null-cobordant since it bounds a disk. More generally, a n-sphere is null-cobordant since it bounds a (n + 1)-disk. Also, every orientable
Eilenberg–MacLane space (3,375 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
infinite symmetric product S P ( S n ) {\displaystyle SP(S^{n})} of a n-sphere is a K ( Z , n ) {\displaystyle K(\mathbb {Z} ,n)} . More generally S P
Rotation matrix (15,822 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
step from n to n + 1, generate a vector v uniformly distributed on the n-sphere Sn, embed the n × n matrix in the next larger size with last column (0
Killing vector field (4,737 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
⁠ S 2 {\displaystyle S^{2}} ⁠, or more generally the n {\displaystyle n} -sphere S n {\displaystyle S^{n}} should be obvious from ordinary intuition: spheres
Cayley–Menger determinant (4,773 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
circumscribed n-sphere, with radius r {\displaystyle r} . Then the (n + 1)-simplex made of the vertices of the n-simplex and the center of the n-sphere is degenerate
Calculus on Euclidean space (11,451 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
that varies continuously. For example, a circle or, more generally, an n-sphere can be oriented; i.e., orientable. On the other hand, a Möbius strip (a
Clifford analysis (3,394 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
△ S + 2 ) , {\displaystyle -\triangle _{S}(\triangle _{S}+2),} on the n-sphere. Via the Cayley transform this operator is conformally equivalent to the
Yamabe invariant (1,231 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
{\displaystyle g_{0}} is the standard metric on the n {\displaystyle n} -sphere S n {\displaystyle S^{n}} . It follows that if we define σ ( M ) = sup
Triangulation (topology) (5,150 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
suspension S 2 X {\displaystyle S^{2}X} is a topological n {\displaystyle n} -sphere. Choosing a triangulation t : | S | → S 2 X {\displaystyle t:|{\mathcal
Homotopy colimit and limit (1,841 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
n-dimensional disk) to a single point. This space is homeomorphic to the n-sphere Sn. On the other hand, the pushout p t ⊔ S n − 1 p t {\displaystyle pt\sqcup
Kervaire invariant (2,366 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
dimension n – specifically the monoid of smooth structures on the standard n-sphere – is isomorphic to the group Θ n {\displaystyle \Theta _{n}} of h-cobordism
Plumbing (mathematics) (985 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
quotient is defined by "straightening the angles". If the base manifold is an n-sphere S n {\displaystyle S^{n}} , then by iterating this procedure over several
Sze-Tsen Hu (489 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
classification of the mappings of a finite complex into a topological group or an n-sphere". Annals of Mathematics. 50 (1): 158–173. doi:10.2307/1969359. JSTOR 1969359
Barratt–Priddy theorem (1,434 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
commonly denoted by Ωn0Sn, where ΩnSn is the n-fold loop space of the n-sphere Sn, and similarly Map0(S∞,S∞) is denoted by Ω∞0S∞. Therefore the Barratt–Priddy
Lie sphere geometry (3,980 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
1 is therefore isomorphic to the projectivized cotangent bundle of the n-sphere. This identification is not invariant under Lie transformations: in Lie
Cartan–Ambrose–Hicks theorem (1,402 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
− 1 } {\displaystyle \in \{+1,0,-1\}} is respectively isometric to the n-sphere S n {\displaystyle S^{n}} , the n-Euclidean space E n {\displaystyle E^{n}}
Topological geometry (4,297 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
If S n {\displaystyle \mathbb {S} _{n}} denotes the n {\displaystyle n} -sphere, then dim ⁡ X ≤ n {\displaystyle \dim X\leq n} if, and only if, for every
Hopf–Whitney theorem (820 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
1007/BF01297505. Whitney, Hassler (1937). "The maps of an n-complex into an n-sphere" (PDF). Duke Mathematical Journal. 3: 51–55. Hopf, Heinz (1933-12-01).
Timeline of manifolds (1,178 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
classification of exotic spheres: the monoid of smooth structures on the n-sphere is the collection of oriented smooth n-manifolds which are homeomorphic