vielbein

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Equivalent to German viele (“many”) + Beine (“legs”).

Noun[edit]

vielbein (plural vielbeins)

  1. A polyad (generalization of vierbein)
    • 2015, Pascal du Bosque, Falk Hassler, Dieter Lust, “Flux Formulation of DFT on Group Manifolds and Generalized Scherk-Schwarz Compactifications”, in arXiv‎[1]:
      This vielbein takes the role of the twist in conventional generalized Scherk-Schwarz compactifications.

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