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### Geometry description of the GSR riffle shuffle model

In 1992 Diaconis and Bayer announced their famous result which is now a well-known folklore: Seven shuffling is enough to randomize a deck of cards. One of the key ingredients in their proof is that ...
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### Isomorphic Dual and Conjugate Representations of a Lie Algebra

Let $\frak{g}$ be Lie algebra $\frak{g}$, and $R:\frak{g} \to$End$(V)$, a representation for some finite dimensional complex vector space $V$. As is well-known, we can construct from $R$ its dual ...
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### Get archimedean spiral length by cartesian coordinates

I am currently busy with writing a generator for a Sacks spiral, and the formulas I currently have are these: ...
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### Connected representant of a framed cobordism class (reference needed)

Let $N^n\subseteq M^m$ be a submanifold with a framing of the normal bundle, $2n<m$. Then $N^n$ is framed cobordant (in $M^m$) to something connected. I believe it could be proved by directly ...
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### Which polynomials define extensions of $k(t)$ unramified at the finite places

Let $k$ be an algebraically closed field of characteristic $p>0$. Let $L$ be the extension of $k(t)$ obtained by attaching a root of an irreducible polynomial $f\in k(t)[x]$. Is there a way to tell ...
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### Linear systems on bielliptic surfaces

A bielliptic surface is a surface of type $S=E_1 \times E_2/G$ where $E_1, E_2$ are elliptic curves and $G$ is a finite group of translations of $E_1$ acting on $E_2$ such that $E_2/G=\mathbf{P}^1$. ...
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### Splitting the Hopf map in two

Given the Hopf map $h:S^3\to S^2$ and an inclusion $i:S^2\hookrightarrow S^3$, the map $i\circ h:S^2\to S^2$ has mapping degree zero. Therefore, it is homotopic to the constant map and the image of ...
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### Existence of Colimits in the Definition of Locally Presentable Categories

Basically, my question is simple: why does the definition of a locally presentable category require all colimits exist? The motivation for this is that I was learning about algebraic posets, and had ...
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### What is the probability of a given induced ordering of a random permutation?

I ran into the following problem in a calculation involving permutations. Let $[n] = \{1,...,n\}$, and assume that $[n]$ is partitioned into equivalency classes. That is, $[n]$ is the disjoint union ...
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### Origins of the Jacobi matrix

I have several questions concerning history of Jacobi matrices. Does anybody know why the Jacobi matrix (=symmetric tridiagonal matrix) is named by Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi? What was his contribution ...
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### Diagonalization via the Toda flow

According to some almost indecipherable notes of a graduate Linear Algebra class, a symmetric matrix $A\in\mathbb R^{n\times n}$ can be diagonalized via the Toda flow. More specifically, if ...
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### Existence of a family of elliptic curves with large torsion subgroup

Andrej Dujella's excellent web-site "High rank elliptic curves with prescribed torsion", at http://web.math.pmf.unizg.hr/~duje/tors/tors.html gives example of the (current) largest known rank of an ...
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### Are two $W^*$-algebras $A$ and $B$ that are Morita equivalent (in the sense of Rieffel) also Morita equivalent in the algebraic sense (as rings)?

Let $A$ and $B$ be $C^*$-algebras, I had a question about Morita equivalence for $C^*$-algebras and $W^*$-algebras, I've come across 3 concepts: Morita equivalence for $C^*$-algebras: Equivalence ...
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### does the words normal bundle is nonnegative make any sense? [on hold]

I have a very loose question, does the words normal bundle is nonnegative make any sense. If yes, how do we prove it usually?
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### About an identity which gives immediate proof of the permanent lemma

Let $A$ be a $n \times n$ matrix over field $F$. Let $a_1, \cdots, a_n$ be the column vectors of $A$. For any subset $S \subseteq [n] = \{1, 2, \cdots, n\}$, let $a_S = \sum_{i \in S} a_i$. Alon's ...
Let $K$ be a number field and let $G$ be the group of automorphisms of $K$ over $\mathbf Q$. The group $G$ acts in a natural way on the ideal class group of $K$. I would like to know if there are any ...
In light of some apparent discrepancies in this MO-Q, I would like an answer to the following question: What properties must a linear operator $\hat{O}_x$ have such that \hat{O}_x^n ...