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Tannakian

Tannakian adjective: being a particular kind of monoidal category equipped with some extra structure relative to a given field.

Adjective

Tannakian (not comparable)

  1. Being a particular kind of monoidal category equipped with some extra structure relative to a given field.

Origin of Tannakian

Named after the Japanese mathematician Tadao Tannaka, + -ian.

Questions about Tannakian

What does Tannakian mean?
Tannakian means being a particular kind of monoidal category equipped with some extra structure relative to a given field.
What part of speech is Tannakian?
Tannakian is an adjective.

Words near Tannakian in the dictionary

  1. Tannaic
  2. Tannaim
  3. Tannaite
  4. Tannaites
  5. Tannaitic
  6. Tannakian
  7. tannal
  8. tannalbin
  9. Tannan
  10. tannas
  11. Tannas Mount

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