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biconservative

biconservative adjective: satisfying the equation A(grad H) = -H grad H for the mean curvature function H and the Weingarten operator A.

Adjective

biconservative (not comparable)

  1. Satisfying the equation A(grad H) = -H grad H for the mean curvature function H and the Weingarten operator A.
    • We give the complete classification of biconservative hypersurfaces with diagonalizable shape operator.2015, Abhitosh Upadhyay, Nurettin Cenk Turgay, “Biconservative hypersurfaces in a pseudo-Euclidean spaces”, in arXiv

Origin of biconservative

From bi- + conservative.

Questions about biconservative

What does biconservative mean?
Biconservative means satisfying the equation A(grad H) = -H grad H for the mean curvature function H and the Weingarten operator A.
What part of speech is biconservative?
Biconservative is an adjective.

Words near biconservative in the dictionary

  1. biconically
  2. biconjugate
  3. biconnected
  4. biconnectivity
  5. bicons
  6. biconservative
  7. biconsonantal
  8. biconsonantals
  9. biconstituent
  10. bicontinental
  11. bicontinuity

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