Hauptvermutung
English
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Etymology
[edit]From German Hauptvermutung, from haupt- (“main, chief, primary”) + Vermutung (“conjecture”).
Noun
[edit]Hauptvermutung (plural not attested)
- (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.