contact geometry (English, noun)
expansion: contact geometry (countable and uncountable, plural contact geometries)
Senses:
qualifier: differential geometry
glosses: Given a smooth manifold of odd dimensionality, a distribution (subset) of the tangent bundle that satisfies the condition of complete nonintegrability, or equivalently may be locally defined as the kernel of a maximally nondegenerate differential 1-form;
tags: countable
qualifier: differential geometry
glosses: Given a smooth manifold of odd dimensionality, a distribution (subset) of the tangent bundle that satisfies the condition of complete nonintegrability, or equivalently may be locally defined as the kernel of a maximally nondegenerate differential 1-form;
(uncountable) the study of such structures.
the study of such structures.
tags: uncountable
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see contact, geometry.
tags: countable
uncountable
Forms:
form: contact geometries
tags: plural