otopy

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otopy

  1. (mathematics) A type of vector field defined on an open set of such that every vector in the field is tangent to the corresponding point in the set.
    • 2015, Piotr Bartłomiejczyk, “The Hopf type theorem for equivariant local maps”, in arXiv[1]:
      We study otopy classes of equivariant local maps and prove the Hopf type theorem for such maps in the case of a real finite dimensional orthogonal representation of a compact Lie group..

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