spin foam

See also: spinfoam

English

Noun

spin foam (countable and uncountable, plural spin foams)

(physics) A topological structure made out of two-dimensional faces that represents one of the configurations that must be summed to obtain a Feynman's path integral description of quantum gravity.

Translations

topological structure

French: mousse de spin (fr) f

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