hypercontinuum

English

Etymology

From hyper- +‎ continuum.

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈhaɪ.pɚ.kənˌtɪn.ju.əm/

Noun

hypercontinuum (plural hypercontinua)

  1. (set theory) The set of all subsets of a set of with the (infinite) cardinality of the continuum.
    • 2015, Alfonso Artigue, “Pseudo-Anosov maps and continuum theory”, in arXiv‎[1]:
      We show that negative iterates of a stable arc converges to this hypercontinuum in the considered metric.
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