Definition of Foliations

1. Noun. (plural of foliation) ¹

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Definition of Foliations

1. foliation [n] - See also: foliation

Lexicographical Neighbors of Foliations

foliaceous
foliage
foliage leaf
foliage volume
foliaged
foliagelike
foliages
folial
foliar
foliate
foliate papillae
foliated
foliates
foliating
foliation
foliations (current term)
foliature
folic
folic acid
folic acid antagonist
folic acid antagonists
folic acid conjugate
folic acid deaminase
folic acid deficiency
folic acid deficiency anaemia
folic acid oxidase
folie
folie a deux
folie du doute
folie du pourquoi

Literary usage of Foliations

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Development of Mathematics in the 19th Century by Felix Klein, Robert Hermann (1979)
"Appendix M THE BORN THEORY OF RIGID MOTIONS IN RELATIVITY AND THE THEORY OF RIEMANNIAN foliations 1. INTRODUCTION One of the main topics in physics that ..."

2. The Geometry of Non-linear Differential Equations, Bäcklund Transformations by Robert Hermann (1977)
"They are more-or-less equivalent to the geometric structures called foliations in the contemporary literature. They play a prominent role in the theory of ..."

3. Constrained Mechanics and Lie Theory by Robert Hermann (1992)
"LIE foliations 1. Introduction. In the previous Chapter, I have briefly describes situations where one ends up with a family of Lie algebra structures on ..."

4. Tenby: A Sea-side Holiday by Philip Henry Gosse (1856)
"... foliations—Leaves—Peculiarities in the Imbibition of ... found in the Peduncle —Generative Organs—Tentacles—Germs—foliations—Thread- ..."

5. Sophus Lie's 1880 Transformation Group Paper by Sophus Lie, Robert Hermann (1975)
"21.1 foliations ADMITTING VECTOR FIELDS If a family 4, = a admits an infinitesimal transformation, say q, then there are two possible cases. ..."

6. Cartanian Geometry, Nonlinear Waves, and Control Theory. by Robert Hermann (1980)
"RIEMANNIAN MANIFOLDS AS LEAF SPACE OF foliations DEFINED BY CARTAN PARALLELISMS Let M be a manifold of dimension n(nl) n+ 2 Choose the ..."

7. Yang-Mills, Kaluza-Klein, and the Einstein Program by Robert Hermann (1978)
"LIE foliations . THE SPACE OF ALL DISCRETE FLAT CONNECTIONS IN THE CASE OF A SIMPLY CONNECTED BASE SPACE Continue with (H, Y , it , 0 ,G, (9 ) as before . ..."

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