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microlocal

microlocal adjective: local with respect to both space and cotangent space.

Adjective

microlocal (not comparable)

  1. Local with respect to both space and cotangent space.
    • Coupled with prior results, this yields a concrete combinatorial model for microlocal sheaves, as well as an elementary method for calculating them..2015, David Nadler, “Non-characteristic expansions of Legendrian singularities”, in arXiv

Origin of microlocal

From micro- + local.

Words formed from microlocal

Questions about microlocal

What does microlocal mean?
Microlocal means local with respect to both space and cotangent space.
What part of speech is microlocal?
Microlocal is an adjective.

Words near microlocal in the dictionary

  1. microlobulated
  2. microlobulation
  3. microlobulations
  4. microlobule
  5. microlobules
  6. microlocal
  7. microlocalities
  8. microlocality
  9. microlocally
  10. microlocation
  11. microlocations

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