subfan

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English

Etymology

sub- +‎ fan

Noun

subfan (plural subfans)

  1. (mathematics) A subset of a fan (part of a tree)
    • 2015, Thomas Markwig, Yue Ren, “Gröbner Fans of x-homogeneous Ideals in Rt[x]”, in arXiv[1]:
      The problem is motivated by the wish to compute tropical varieties over the p-adic numbers, which are the intersection of a subfan of a Gr\"obner fan as studied in this paper by some affine hyperplane, as shown in a forthcoming paper..

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