cocompact

cocompact

English

Etymology

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Latin con-
Latin co-der.
English co-
Latin compactumbor.
English compact
English cocompact

    From co- + compact.

    Adjective

    cocompact (not comparable)

    1. (of a group action, or its group) Having a compact quotient space.
      • 2009 January, Bernard Russo, James J. Tattersall, “Program of the Sessions: Washington, District of Columbia, January 5-8, 2009”, in Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 56:1[1], page 122:
        9:45AM (208) Infinite towers of cocompact lattices in Kac-Moody groups. Preliminary report. Lisa Carbone and Leigh Cobbs*, Rutgers University

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