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Open book decomposition — In mathematics, an open book decomposition (or simply an open book) is a decomposition of a closed oriented 3 manifold M into a union of surfaces (necessarily with boundary) and solid tori. Open books have relevance to contact geometry, with a… … Wikipedia
Open book — Contents 1 Music 2 Books and publishing 3 Computing and networking 4 … Wikipedia
open-book — adjective referring to exams in which external resources such as glossaries, study notes, calculators, etc may be used open book decomposition Ant: closed book … Wiktionary
Manifold decomposition — In topology, a branch of mathematics, a manifold M may be decomposed or split by writing M as a combination of smaller pieces. When doing so, one must specify both what those pieces are and how they are put together to form M. Manifold… … Wikipedia
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Weinstein conjecture — In mathematics, the Weinstein conjecture refers to a general existence problem for periodic orbits of Hamiltonian or Reeb vector flows. More specifically, the current understanding is that a regular compact contact type level set of a Hamiltonian … Wikipedia
Elmar Winkelnkemper — Horst Elmar Winkelnkemper is a tenured associate professor of mathematics at the University of Maryland, College Park. A graduate from Princeton University and the National Autonomous University of Mexico, Winkelnkemper is was born in Cologne,… … Wikipedia
Fibered knot — A knot or link Kin the 3 dimensional sphere S^3 is called fibered (sometimes spelled fibred) in case there is a 1 parameter family F t of Seifert surfaces for K, where the parameter t runs through the points of the unit circle S^1, such that if s … Wikipedia
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