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Todd Trimble Mod
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"what is" type questions

is it acceptable to put questions of the type "what does ... mean?" or "what is ...?" on MathOverflow. For example?

  • what is the moduli space of higgs bundles?
  • what is a Picard-Viessot extension?
  • what is a Borel subgroup?
  • what is the Kontsevich-Zorich cocycle?
  • ...
  • etc

There are many examples of literature where the jargon is so specific I have no idea what they are talking about. Perhaps it's time to contact the author?