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What is torsion in differential geometry intuitively?

dg.differential-geometry intuition torsion

dec 16 at 6:48 Peter Michor 5,577●11●18

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What is sheaf cohomology intuitively?

sheaf-theory cohomology intuition soft-question sheaf-theory

sep 18 10 at 23:51 Mariano Suárez-Alvarez 30.6k●8●69●155

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What is a Lagrangian submanifold intuitively?

intuition sg.symplectic-geometry poisson-geometry

may 2 12 at 22:12 Alberto Abbondandolo 697●3●10

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What is a coalgebra intuitively?

coalgebra intuition

jul 20 at 23:20 Menton 93●3

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What is the exterior derivative intuitively?

intuition dg.differential-geometry

feb 21 at 8:53 Johannes Ebert 11.5k●33●56

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Geometric interpretation of group rings?

noncommutative-geometry intuition geometric-intuition gr.group-theory

oct 5 10 at 12:47 Jan Weidner 5,908●21●39

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Classical mechanics motivation for poisson manifolds?

poisson-geometry sg.symplectic-geometry classical-mechanics

jun 18 10 at 5:02 David Bar Moshe 2,863●6●7

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What information is contained in the Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials?

big-list rt.representation-theory ag.algebraic-geometry co.combinatorics big-picture

apr 24 at 15:50 Sam Clearman 1●1

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Examples of categorification

big-list categorification examples

oct 27 10 at 21:27 David MJC 459●4●12

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Examples for D-affine varieties?

d-modules ag.algebraic-geometry

may 14 12 at 16:49 Jan Weidner 5,908●21●39