Concept information
Preferred term
Riemannian manifold
Definition(s)
- In differential geometry, a Riemannian manifold or Riemannian space (M, g), so called after the German mathematician Bernhard Riemann, is a real, smooth manifold M equipped with a positive-definite inner product g_p on the tangent space T_pM at each point p. (Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemannian_manifold)
Broader concept(s)
Narrower concept(s)
Synonym(s)
- Riemannian metric
- Riemann manifold
- Riemann metric
In other languages
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French
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métrique de Riemann
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métrique riemannienne
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variété de Riemann
URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/MDL-NQPQTF1Z-W
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