Let $G$ be a commutative algebraic group stack over $\mathbb{F}_q$ (I don't really care about the precise definition: I'm secretly thinking about the Picard stack of a projective c …

Does the Fano plane mnemonic for octonion multiplication have any deeper meaning? http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2d/FanoPlane.svg The symmetry group of the Fano …

Since in a compact Riemannian manifold $M$ the only totally convex subset is the whole manifold itself, see http://mathoverflow.net/questions/106169/closed-manifold-has-no-nontrivi …

Yitang Zhang recently published a new attack on the Twin Primes Conjecture. Quoting Andre Granville: “The big experts in the field had already tried to make this approach w …

I recently started reading about hyperbolic dynamics in the notes of L. Wen, http://www6.cityu.edu.hk/rcms/publications/ln5.pdf and in this (page 8) there is the following s …

Inspired by this question, I would like to determine the probability that a random knot of 6 unit sticks is a trefoil. This naturally leads to the following question: Is there a …

Let's define a net and subnet in this way: A net is a any function of the form $n:(P,\le)\to X$ where $(P,\le)$ is a (preordered) directed set. A net $m:(P',\le)\to X$ is a subne …

I am wondering what is known about optimization problems of the following type. Our control x is a unit vector in $\mathbb{R}^n$. We are given a finite number of linear inequalit …

My question may be a bit lousy. Suppose we have a set of statistical variables X1, X2, .. Xn, and we have N independent samples. We can compute the covariance matrix of {X}. My que …

A partial permutation matrix $\pi$ is one with at most one 1 in any row and column (the rest 0s). Given one, we can cross out to the East and South (but not Southeast) of each 1. S …

Hi everybody There are 11 signals: S_main : The original signal S1 ~ S10 : 10 signals that are correlated to S_main with different correlation coefficients (coeff1 ~ coeff10) …

I saw in the answer of this post that any finitely generated monoids are finitely presented in the sense that there is a coequalizer diagram $P_1\rightrightarrows P_0\rightarrow M$ …

I should read J. C. Rosales and P. A. García-Sánchez's book Finitely Generated Commutative Monoids and L. Redei's book The Theory of Finitely Generated Commutative Semigroups. I h …

Are there tetrahedra which can be subdivided into three parts similar to the original? I believe this would require splitting one face into three parts. I know some types of tetrah …

If we let $K$ be a number field, thank to the fact that we can extend it integer ring to an UFD where the group of units is finitely generated, we can show that $K^\ast\cong K^\as …