ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Fedosov manifold

Ok, kiddo, imagine you have a big marshmallow that you want to cut into smaller pieces. You can do this by slicing it with a knife, right?

Now, imagine the marshmallow is a special shape called a "manifold". A manifold is like a bumpy ball or something with hills and valleys on it. And when you make slices on the manifold, you get a bunch of pieces that are either flat, curved, or twisted in some way.

But what if we want to do a different kind of slicing? Something more complicated?

That's where the Fedosov manifold comes in! It's like a special knife that can create slices on the manifold in a very precise and complicated way. So that the pieces you get are not only flat, curved or twisted, but they also have some special rules that they follow.

And why do we want this kind of slicing? Well, it turns out that this technique is really useful in physics and math. It helps us solve some problems that are really hard otherwise.

So that's the Fedosov manifold in a nutshell, kiddo. A special knife that helps us cut a bumpy ball into pieces in a very specific way, all for the sake of solving tricky math and physics problems.