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pseudocollarable

pseudocollarable adjective: such that there exists a neighborhood that is homeomorphic to a product, but this homeomorphism may not preserve all the desired structures or conditions that a true collar neighborhood would.

Adjective

pseudocollarable (not comparable)

  1. Such that there exists a neighborhood that is homeomorphic to a product, but this homeomorphism may not preserve all the desired structures or conditions that a true collar neighborhood would.
    • Answering a question going back to Gromov, we show that, for an open, polyhedral contractible manifold M of dimension at least 6, the following conditions are equivalent: - M admits a geodesically complete CAT(0) metric; - M can be collapsed; - M is pseudocollarable. This yields many new...2015, Karim A. Adiprasito, Louis Funar, “Hyperbolicity of contractible manifolds”, in arXiv

Origin of pseudocollarable

From pseudo- + collarable.

Questions about pseudocollarable

What does pseudocollarable mean?
Pseudocollarable means such that there exists a neighborhood that is homeomorphic to a product, but this homeomorphism may not preserve all the desired structures or conditions that a true collar neighborhood would.
What part of speech is pseudocollarable?
Pseudocollarable is an adjective.

Words near pseudocollarable in the dictionary

  1. pseudocoelomes
  2. pseudocoelomic
  3. pseudocoeloms
  4. pseudocoels
  5. pseudocoelum
  6. pseudocollarable
  7. pseudocollegiate
  8. pseudocolloquial
  9. pseudocolonial
  10. pseudocolonialism
  11. pseudocolonies

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