vielbein
English
editEtymology
editEquivalent to German viele (“many”) + Beine (“legs”).
Noun
editvielbein (plural vielbeins)
- A polyad (generalization of vierbein)
- 2015, Pascal du Bosque, Falk Hassler, Dieter Lust, “Flux Formulation of DFT on Group Manifolds and Generalized Scherk-Schwarz Compactifications”, in arXiv[1]:
- This vielbein takes the role of the twist in conventional generalized Scherk-Schwarz compactifications.