Lamination (mathematics)
In topology, a branch of mathematics, a lamination is a : * "topological space partitioned into subsets" * decoration (a structure or property at a point) of a manifold in which some subset of the manifold is partitioned into sheets of some lower dimension, and the sheets are locally parallel. A lamination of a surface is a partition of a closed subset of the surface into smooth curves. It may or may not be possible to fill the gaps in a lamination to make a foliation. Oak Ridge National Laboratory Examples *A geodesic lamination of a 2-dimensional hyperbolic manifold is a closed subset together with a foliation of this closed subset by geodesics. These are used in Thurston's classification of elements of the mapping class group and in his theory of earthquake maps. *Quadratic laminations, which remain invariant under the angle doubling map. These laminations are associated with quadratic maps. It is a closed collection of chords in the unit disc.
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