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Wick rotation

formal analytic continuation of the time coordinate that changes a Lorentzian metric signature to a Euclidean one
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Wick rotation

Summary

Wick rotation ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (77 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Gian Carlo Wick is named after Wick rotation[2].
  • Wick rotation's subclass of is recorded as analytic continuation[3].
  • Wick rotation's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +2000-00-00T00:00:00Z[4].
  • Wick rotation's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01qxtt[5].
  • Wick rotation's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://physics.stackexchange.com/tags/wick-rotation[6].
  • Wick rotation's uses is recorded as imaginary time[7].
  • Wick rotation's defining formula is recorded as t=\mathrm i\tau[8].
  • Wick rotation's nLab ID is recorded as Wick rotation[9].
  • Wick rotation's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Mathematics[10].
  • Wick rotation's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 12537461[11].
  • Wick rotation's in defining formula is recorded as t[12].
  • Wick rotation's in defining formula is recorded as \tau[13].
  • Wick rotation's in defining formula is recorded as \mathrm i[14].

Why It Matters

Wick rotation ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (77 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 10 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[15]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [15] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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