transnormal

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English

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Etymology

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From trans- +‎ normal.

Adjective

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transnormal (not comparable)

  1. beyond normality
  2. (mathematics) Having the property that for any pair of points (x, y) in a Riemannian manifold where x belongs to the normal subspace at y, the normal subspaces at points x and y coincide.
    • 2015, Qun He, SongTing Yin, YiBing Shen, “Isoparametric Hypersurfaces in Minkowski Spaces”, in arXiv[1]:
      In this paper, we introduce isoparametric functions and isoparametric hypersurfaces in Finsler manifolds and give the necessary and sufficient conditions for a transnormal function to be isoparametric.