Hypercycle may refer to:
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Hypercycle (chemistry)
In chemistry, a hypercycle is an abstract model of organization of self-replicating molecules connected in a Periodic sequence, cyclic, Autocatalysis, autocatalytic manner. It was introduced in an ordinary differential equation (ODE) form by the L ...
, a kind of reaction network prominent in a theory of the self-organization of matter
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Hypercycle (geometry)
In hyperbolic geometry, a hypercycle, hypercircle or equidistant curve is a curve whose points have the same orthogonal distance from a given straight line (its axis).
Given a straight line and a point not on , one can construct a hypercycle ...
, a curve in
hyperbolic space
In mathematics, hyperbolic space of dimension n is the unique simply connected, n-dimensional Riemannian manifold of constant sectional curvature equal to -1. It is homogeneous, and satisfies the stronger property of being a symmetric space. ...
whose points have the same orthogonal distance from a given straight line
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