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Kan extensions

Kan extensions is the plural of Kan extension.

Meaning of Kan extension

Noun

Kan extension (plural Kan extensions)

  1. A construct that generalizes the notion of extending a function's domain of definition.
    • Moreover, f∗ admits both a left adjoint f_! and a right adjoint f_∗, given by left and right Kan extension along the map SingY→SingX, respectively. Note that this is left and right Kan extension in the ∞-categorical sense, which amounts to homotopy left and right Kan extension on the level of...2010, Matthew Ando, Andrew J. Blumberg, David Gepner, Twists of K-Theory and TMF, Robert S. Doran, Greg Friedman, Jonathan Rosenberg, Superstrings, Geometry, Topology, and C*-algebras, American...

Questions about Kan extensions

What is Kan extensions the plural of?
Kan extensions is the plural of Kan extension.

Words near Kan extensions in the dictionary

  1. kamānche
  2. kamānches
  3. kan
  4. kan cheong
  5. Kan extension
  6. Kan extensions
  7. kan ni na
  8. kan ni na beh
  9. kan ni na beh chao chee bye
  10. kan ni na bu
  11. kan ni na bu chao chee bai

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