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calabi-yau manifold

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.36 in modern English

Syllables
cal-abi-yau -man-i-fold
IPA
30
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
6
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A kind of manifold having properties, such as Ricci flatness, that yield applications in theoretical physics.

Etymology

The name was coined by Candelas et al. (1985), named after Italian-born American mathematician Eugenio Calabi (1954, 1957) who first conjectured that such surfaces might exist, and Chinese American mathematician and educator Shing-Tung Yau (1978), who proved the Calabi conjecture.

Inflected Forms

Calabi-Yau manifolds (plural)

Synonyms

Calabi-Yau space

Questions

What does calabi-yau manifold mean?
A kind of manifold having properties, such as Ricci flatness, that yield applications in theoretical physics.
Where does calabi-yau manifold come from?
The name was coined by Candelas et al. (1985), named after Italian-born American mathematician Eugenio Calabi (1954, 1957) who first conjectured that such surfaces might exist, and Chinese American mathematician and educator Shing-Tung Yau (1978), who proved the Calabi conjecture.

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