subfan

English

Etymology

From sub- +‎ fan.

Noun

subfan (plural subfans)

1. (mathematics) A subset of a fan (part of a tree).
   • 2015, Thomas Markwig, Yue Ren, “Gröbner Fans of x-homogeneous Ideals in Rt[x]”, in arXiv‎^[1]:

     The problem is motivated by the wish to compute tropical varieties over the p-adic numbers, which are the intersection of a subfan of a Gr\"obner fan as studied in this paper by some affine hyperplane, as shown in a forthcoming paper..

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