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Anything special (historical?) about surface $x\cdot y\cdot z\ +\ x+y+z=0$?

QUESTION I wanted to introduce and develop the complex logarithm from scratch. As the result I've arrived a couple of months ago at the following identity after which the road to …
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A machine learning application question

I am familiar with basic probabilities, random processes but not so much of machine learning methods. This is the problem I am trying to solve. I want to predict the nature of use …
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Closure of one relation w.r.t other

I have two relations R and R' satisfying following property - R(a,b) & R'(a,a') & R(a',b') => R(a,b') Pictorially, it looks like this - a --(R)-> b | \ (R') \ (* n …
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Nonseparable example in dimension theory?

Could you give me an example of a complete metric space with covering dimension $> n$ all of which closed separable subsets have covering dimension $\le n$? The question close …
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Number of blocks in a t-(v,k,l) design with empty intersection with a given set U

Question Given a $t-(v,k,\lambda)$ design $(X,\mathcal{B})$ and a set $U\subset X$ with $|U|=u\leq t$, what is the number of blocks $B\in\mathcal{B}$ such that $B\cap U=\emptyset$? …
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How can this fail if my pairing is nondegenerate?

I have two infinite-dimensional (Frechet) linear spaces $X$ and $Y$ over $\mathbb R$, and a nondegenerate pairing $\langle\cdot,\cdot\rangle:X\times Y\to \mathbb R$. Neither $X$ no …
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Where is the belly button of the Universe?

It's fine and nice and wonderful when a part of learning mathematics is chaotic, ad hoc, spontaneous, social, ... However it would be perhaps of fundamental value to know a very c …
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Existence of particular embeddings in euclidean spaces for non compact manifolds

Let $M$ be a $n$-dimensional smooth connected not compact manifold s.t. groups (singular cohomology) $H^{k}(M,\mathbb{Z})$ are finitely generated for $k\geq 0$. Can we find a suff …
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Inverse (in)degree of a digraph

Hi All, here is my question. I'm given a directed graph $(V,E)$ with $|V| = n$ vertices and in-degrees $d_1$, $d_2$ ... $d_n$ (so that $\sum_i d_i = |E|$). Can we upper bound the …
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biharmonic morphisms

My question is related to the Riemann Mapping Theorem. A function $f$ is biharmonic if $\Delta^2f=0$. Let $D$ be a simply connected domain in $\mathbb{R}^2$ and denote by $B$ the …
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What is the inverse of this kind of integral transform?

Let $$\hat{f}(\lambda):= \int_0^{+\infty}K(x,\lambda)\ f(x)\ dx, \text{where } K(x,\lambda)=\sqrt{\frac{2}{\pi}}\frac{\lambda \cos(\lambda x)+h\sin(\lambda x)}{\lambda^2+h^2}$$ be …
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What’s wrong with this arithmetic model for the change in the perception of “number” of quantum states? [closed]

Maybe one of the strange things about quantum mechanics comes from the mental dificulty of reconciling the fact that a system in a superposition of several states, when measured or …
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How many trees can be constructed from k vertices using an LCA operator?

Consider the class of rooted trees and suppose I have at my disposal a lowest common ancestor (LCA) operator given by $$ \textrm{lca}(u,v) = \text{the lowest common ancestor of $u$ …
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The “right” $C^*$ algebraic proof of Bott Periodicity

In learning about the K-theory of $C^*$-algebras, I have encountered the following 3 proofs of Bott periodicity: $\bullet$ An argument based on Moyal quantization found in "Elemen …
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Covariance of INID order statistics

In the IID case, it is known that all order statistics are positively correlated.* Thus, we know that $$\text{Cov}(X_{(i)},X_{(j)}) \geq 0.$$ Is this known in the INID (independe …

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