Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Somewhat elongate-ovate; between ovate and elliptic or oblong and elliptic.
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- adjective Imperfectly
elliptic ; not quite elliptic; approximating an ellipse.
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sub- + elliptic
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It presents the major differential geometric acheivements in the theory of CR manifolds, such as the Tanaka-Webster connection, Fefferman's metric, pseudo-Einstein structures and the Lee conjecture, CR immersions, subelliptic harmonic maps as a local manifestation of pseudoharmonic maps from a CR manifold, Yang-Mills fields on CR manifolds, to name a few.
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