compactification

Any of various procedures of enlarging a topological space to make it compact.

Noun

  1. Any of various procedures of enlarging a topological space to make it compact.
  2. The space resulting from any such procedure.
  3. Any modification of a theory such that an infinite parameter becomes finite.
  4. The reduction of the number of large spacetime dimensions of a physical theory by making some of them compact.

Origin

Etymology tree English compact English -ification English compactification From compact + -ification.

Forms

compactifications

Derived

beta-compactification decompactification Freund-Rubin compactification Stone-Čech compactification Wallman compactification