Hauptvermutung

English

Etymology

From German Hauptvermutung, from haupt- (“main, chief, primary”) + Vermutung (“conjecture”).

Noun

Hauptvermutung (plural not attested)

1. (topology) The conjecture, now proven false, that any two triangulations of a triangulable space have a common refinement, a single triangulation that is a subdivision of both of them.