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unicritical

unicritical adjective: having a single critical point.

Adjective

unicritical (not comparable)

  1. Having a single critical point.
    • The proof of discontinuity of straightening maps is carried out by showing that all non-real umbilical cords of the multicorns wiggle, which settles a conjecture made by various people including Hubbard, Milnor, and Schleicher. We also prove some rigidity theorems for polynomial parabolic germs...2016, Hiroyuki Inou, Sabyasachi Mukherjee, “Discontinuity of straightening in antiholomorphic dynamics”, in arXiv

Origin of unicritical

From uni- + critical.

Questions about unicritical

What does unicritical mean?
Unicritical means having a single critical point.
What part of speech is unicritical?
Unicritical is an adjective.

Words near unicritical in the dictionary

  1. unicoronal
  2. unicortical
  3. unicortically
  4. unicostate
  5. UNICRI
  6. unicritical
  7. unicryptal
  8. unicultural
  9. unicum
  10. unicursal
  11. unicursal maze

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