Compactification
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Compactification may refer to:
- Compactification (mathematics)Compactification (mathematics)In mathematics, compactification is the process or result of making a topological space compact. The methods of compactification are various, but each is a way of controlling points from "going off to infinity" by in some way adding "points at infinity" or preventing such an "escape".-An...
, making a topological space compact - Compactification (physics)Compactification (physics)In physics, compactification means changing a theory with respect to one of its space-time dimensions. Instead of having a theory with this dimension being infinite, one changes the theory so that this dimension has a finite length, and may also be periodic....
, the "curling up" of extra dimensions in string theory - Compaction (disambiguation)