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Isotopy may
refer to: Homotopy#
Isotopy, a
continuous path of
homeomorphisms connecting two
given homeomorphisms...
- embeddings. This
corresponds to the
definition of
isotopy. An
ambient isotopy,
studied in this context, is an
isotopy of the
larger space,
considered in light...
- In a story, we
detect an
isotopy when
there is a
repetition of a
basic meaning trait (seme); such repetition,
establishing some
level of
familiarity within...
- In the
mathematical subject of topology, an
ambient isotopy, also
called an h-
isotopy, is a kind of
continuous distortion of an
ambient space, for example...
- In the
mathematical subject of knot theory,
regular isotopy is the
equivalence relation of link
diagrams that is
generated by
using the 2nd and 3rd Reidemeister...
- In mathematics, an
isotopy from a
possibly non-****ociative
algebra A to
another is a
triple of
bijective linear maps (a, b, c) such that if xy = z then...
- can
remove the self-intersections
simply by
isotoping M into
itself (the
isotopy being in the
domain of f), to a
submanifold of M that does not contain...
- as the
homeomorphism between a
trefoil knot and a circle.
Homotopy and
isotopy are
precise definitions for the
informal concept of
continuous deformation...
- respectively, that map L1 to L2.
Isotopy is an
equivalence relation and the
equivalence classes are
called isotopy classes. A
stronger form of equivalence...
-
mathematical field of
abstract algebra,
isotopy is an
equivalence relation used to
classify the
algebraic notion of loop.
Isotopy for
loops and
quasigroups was...