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Riemannian manifold
(redirected from Riemannian metric)

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Riemannian manifold [rē′män·ē·ən ′man·ə‚fōld]
(mathematics)
A differentiable manifold where the tangent vectors about each point have an inner product so defined as to allow a generalized study of distance and orthogonality.


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