Reeb component

English

Etymology

Introduced by the French mathematician Georges Reeb (1920–1992).

Noun

Reeb component (plural Reeb components)

  1. (topology) A solid torus whose boundary is a leaf of a foliation of the ambient 3-dimensional manifold.

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