Compactification

Noun

Définitions

1.NounAny of various procedures of enlarging a topological space to make it compact.

2.NounThe space resulting from any such procedure.

3.NounAny modification of a theory such that an infinite parameter becomes finite.

4.NounThe reduction of the number of large spacetime dimensions of a physical theory by making some of them compact.

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