# All Questions

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### Existence of finite set of points in the revolving circles

Let $k$ and $n$ be two fixed integers. Let $C$ denotes the circle with radius $4n$ (in the plane $\mathbb{R}^2$). Suppose $\{C_1,C_2\}$ shows the set of two arbitrary tangent circles with radius $2n$ ...
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### Do discrete groups with property $(T)$ have “modest” subgroup growth?

I saw it conjectured at http://www.mathunion.org/ICM/ICM1994.1/Main/icm1994.1.0309.0317.ocr.pdf that "discrete subgroups with property $(T)$ may have modest subgroup growth." (Page 5, directly above ...
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### Which sections of $T^*M\odot T^*M$ have reproducing kernel “primitives”?

Given a smooth reproducing kernel $\kappa:M\times M\rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ on a manifold $M$, we can construct a section, $\alpha_{\kappa}$, of the symmetric tensor product $T^*M\odot T^*M$ by taking ...
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### Computing minimal polynomials using LLL

I would like to use the Lenstra–Lenstra–Lovász lattice basis reduction algorithm (LLL algorithm) to compute the minimal polynomial of a (real) algebraic number $\alpha$ from a decimal approximation ...
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### History of “without loss of generality”

"Without loss of generality" is a standard in the mathematical lexicon, and I am writing to ask if anyone knows where the expression was popularized. (The idea has been around since antiquity, I'm ...
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### Knuth's intuition that Goldbach might be unprovable

Knuth's intuition that Goldbach's conjecture (every even number greater than 2 can be written as a sum of two primes) might be one of the statements that can neither be proved nor disproved really ...
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### Hausdorff dimension of R x X

In general, the Hausdorff dimension of a product is at least the sum of the dimensions of the two spaces. Does equality hold if one space is Euclidian? So let $X$ be a metric space and let ...
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### Why are flat morphisms “flat?”

Of course "flatness" is a word that evokes a very particular geometric picture, and it seems to me like there should be a reason why this word is used, but nothing I can find gives me a reason! Is ...
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### The Chern-Simons/Wess-Zumino-Witten correspondence

I have often seen a relationship being alluded to between these two theories but I am unable to find any literature which proves/derives/explains this relationship. I guess in the condensed matter ...
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### Reasons for the Arnold conjecture

I am trying to understand the Arnold conjecture in Symplectic Geometry, which basically tells us the following: If $M$ is a compact symplectic manifold and $H_t$ be a 1-periodic Hamiltonian function, ...
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### Ext and cup products and subvarieties

I am trying to understand Remark 11.3 in Huybrechts's amazing book on derived categories (FM transforms in AG). He starts with smooth projective varieties $j\colon Y \subset X$ and aims to describe ...
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### Finding a recursion for a sum of Legendre polynomials

The polynomial $a_n(x):=P_n(x)-\frac{n-1}{n}P_{n-2}(x)$ where $P_n(x)$ is a Legendre polynomial came up while I was investigating methods for estimating the error in Gaussian quadrature. I am ...
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### Classifying spaces for enriched categories

Is there a standard construction of a classifying space $BC$ for a category $C$ which is enriched which takes into account the enrichment? This is of course vague... The simplest example I can think ...
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### The first complete proof of the Kronecker-Weber theorem

While the Kronecker-Weber theorem —that every finite abelian extension of $\mathbb Q$ is contained in a cyclotomic field— is always attributed to, well, Leopold Kronecker and Heinrich Martin Weber, ...
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### Is this pleasing polynomial irreducible?

Let: $f(x)=x^n+2x^{n-1}+3x^{n-2}+4x^{n-3}+\ldots + (n-1)x^2+nx+(n+1)$. Is $f(x)$ irreducible? In light of the answers to this question, I now know that this is true when $n+1$ is prime. What about ...
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### When is a Riemannian metric equivalent to the flat metric on $\mathbb R^n$?

I'm looking for an easily-checked, local condition on an $n$-dimensional Riemannian manifold to determine whether small neighborhoods are isometric to neighborhoods in $\mathbb R^n$. For example, for ...
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### Nilpotent pro-$p$ groups

Is it true that every finitely generated (topologically) torsion free nilpotent pro-$p$ group is isomorphic to a subgroup of $U_d(\mathbb{Z}_p)$, the group of $d\times d$-upper triangular matrices ...
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### what was Hilbert's geometric construction in his 17th problem?

Hilbert's 17th problem asked if a nonnegative real polynomial is the sum of squares of rational functions. It was answered affirmative by Artin in around 1920. However, in his speech, he also asked if ...
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### Is the isomorphism class of a fixed cardinality a set?

Is the isomorphism class of a fixed cardinality a set(not a proper class)? Or a fixed ordinality for that matter? By "isomorphism" I mean just bijection for cardinals and order preserving bijection ...
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### A “universally non Hypercomplete” $\infty$-topos?

My question is : Is there a classifying $\infty$-topos for $\infty$-connected objects ? Does this $\infty$-topos has a nice description (as an $\infty$-category ) ? What I mean by $\infty$-connected ...
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### Minkowski spacetime in Newman Penrose formalism

I have a rather basic question for which (surprisingly!) I cannot find a short and clear answer anywhere: I'm currently looking at the Newman Penrose (NP) formalism (I use primarily Chandrasekhar's ...
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### Classifying space for homology endomorphisms supported on a graph?

Let $X$ be a reasonable topological space (say one that has the homotopy type of a finite CW complex) and consider a subset $\Gamma$ of $X \times X$ so that the projection $p:\Gamma \to X$ onto the ...
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### Tensorization of Orlicz norm?

Associated with a convex function $\phi:[0,\infty)\mapsto[0,\infty)$ satisfying $\lim_{x\to 0} \frac{\phi(x)}{x} = 0, \lim_{x\to\infty}\frac{\phi(x)}{x} = \infty,$ the Orlicz norm of a random variable ...
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### Errata database?

Some authors do a really great job by collecting errors and comments to their books and putting a list on their websites. I wonder if there is some (perhaps wiki-style) website where errata are ...
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### n-dimensional “cross product” reference request

I have written a paper which involves a "cross product" in $\mathbb{R}^n$ and I would like to have a reference to point to. Let ${\bf e_1}, \dots, {\bf e_n}$ be the standard basis for $\mathbb{R}^n$ ...
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### Relation between motivic homotopy category and the derived category of motives

What's the relation between the pointed motivic homotopy category $\mathcal{H}_*(k)$ and the derived category of motives $\mathbf{DM}^-_{eff}(k)$ besides the representability of motivic cohomology in ...
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### Remark 4.23.4 in Hartshorne

Crosspost from math.stackexchange, since it's quite possible I might not get a response there. Remark 4.23.4 in Chapter IV of Hartshorne's Algebraic Geometry references a paper by Elkies that ...
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### A question on theorem 1.1 of Fritz John ultrahyperbolic pde

I have the following paper: Fritz John, The ultrahyperbolic differential equation with four independent variables, Duke Math. J. 4 (1938), no. 2, pages 300-322 doi:10.1215/S0012-7094-38-00423-5 Now ...
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### extension of holomorphic mappings

In 1971 Phillip.A.Griffith proved that Let $B_n^\ast=\{z\in\mathbb{C}^n:0<\|z\|\le 1\}$ be the punctured ball in $\mathbb{C}^n$,and $f:B_n^\ast\rightarrow M$ a holomorphic mapping into a compact ...
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### Are most random variables trivially sub-gaussian? [closed]

I'm trying to understand sub-gaussian RVs to see if they could be relevant to my work. The common definition of a sub-gaussian RV is the following. X is $\sigma$ sub-gaussian if its laplace transform ...
Let $f(x)$ be an algebraic function over the field $\mathcal F$ of algebraic numbers over $\mathbb{Q}$. Suppose that $r \in \mathcal F$. Does the discriminant of $f(r)$ divide the discriminant of ...
Let $X$ be a connected hyperbolic 3-manifold (without boundary), $S^3$ the 3-sphere and $Map(X,S^3)$ the space of continuous maps between $X$ and $S^3$. Question: Is the space $Map(X,S^3)$ connected ...