microsupports

Noun

microsupport (plural microsupports)

1. Extremely localized structural support.
   • A greater number of elements may be detected by means of a thin pyrographite or glassy carbon microsupport (cross section 0.1-0.5 mm2), which is introduced into a high-temperature flame such as acetylene/nitrous oxide.1978, American Laboratory - Volume 10, page 20
2. Social support provided by small acts.
   • However, in the rural and sparsely populated areas in Sweden there is microsupport for investments not exceeding SEK 40 000.1996, Books For Life Foundation, Grameen Bank/micro-credit Ideas: Report from a Seminar, →ISBN, page 19
3. A closed involutive cone in the cotangent bundle of codirections in which the cohomology of the object does not propagate.
   • We show that many interesting spaces -- including all positroid strata and wild character varieties -- are moduli of constructible sheaves on a surface with microsupport in a Legendrian link.2015, Vivek Shende, David Treumann, Harold Williams, Eric Zaslow, “Cluster varieties from Legendrian knots”, in arXiv