diffeomorphic
Adjective
Meaning
diffeomorphic (not comparable)
(mathematics) Having a diffeomorphism.
Examples
Freedman's work left open the possibility that there is a smooth four-manifold homeomorphic to the four-sphere which is not diffeomorphic to the four-sphere.
Hamilton used the Ricci flow to prove that some compact manifolds were diffeomorphic to spheres and he hoped to apply it to prove the Poincaré Conjecture.
Curved spaces main A smooth manifold is a Hausdorff topological space that is locally diffeomorphic to Euclidean space.
In dimensions 1, 2, 3, any pair of homeomorphic smooth manifolds are diffeomorphic.
More mathematically, for example, the problem of constructing a diffeomorphism between two manifolds of the same dimension is inherently global since locally two such manifolds are always diffeomorphic.
The space of unoriented lines in the plane is diffeomorphic to the open Möbius band.