postcritical

English

Alternative forms

  • post-critical

Etymology

From post- +‎ critical.

Adjective

postcritical (not comparable)

  1. Following criticism; after all criticism has ended
  2. (mathematics) Pertaining to the set of all images of the critical points of a function.
    • 2015, Carlos Cabrera, Peter Makienko, “On hyperbolic metric and asymptotically finite invariant differentials in holomorphic dynamics”, in arXiv[1]:
      Given a rational map , we consider the complement of the postcritical set .