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Curvature vs Supercurvature - What's the difference?

curvature | supercurvature |

As nouns the difference between curvature and supercurvature

is that curvature is the shape of something curved while supercurvature is the curvature of spacetime in higher dimensions (in supersymmetry.

curvature

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The shape of something curved.
  • (mathematics) The extent to which a subspace is curved within a metric space.
  • The extent to which a Riemannian manifold is intrinsically curved.
  • supercurvature

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (physics) The curvature of spacetime in higher dimensions (in supersymmetry)