orderability

Definitions

The quality of being orderable.

uncountable, usually

Examples

“In this expository article I will review⟳ some constructions of bi-invariant metrics on the contactomorphism group, and how these metrics are related to some other global rigidity phenomena in contact⟳ topology which have⟳ been discovered in the last⟳ few years, in particular the notion of orderability (due to Eliashberg and Polterovich) and an analogue in contact⟳ topology (due to Eliashberg, Kim and Poltorovich) of Gromov's symplectic non-squeezing theorem..”

CEFR level