# All Questions

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### Are shortest halving curves simple closed geodesics?

Let $S$ be a smooth convex surface in $\mathbb{R}^3$ (although my question may as well be asked for the surface of a polyhedron). Say that $\gamma$ is a shortest halving curve if (a) it partitions the ...
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### Is a continuous map between smoothable manifolds of the same dimension always smoothable?

(My question is inspired by this math.SE question, whose negative answer I showed by a dimension-increasing map.) Is it the case that for all smoothable manifolds $M_0$ and $M_1$ with the same ...
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### Going Back-and-Forth Between Different Expressions/“Representations” for Open Books.

I am trying to have a better understanding of how one goes , "travels" between the different formats/layouts of open books for a fixed given 3-manifold M; between the abstract type and the "actual" ...
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### Where can I find a translation of Caspar Wessel's “Om directionens analytiske betegning?”

I found a listing on Google books for a book containing the desired English translation, together with some biographical information on Wessel, and entitled On the Analytical Representation of ...
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### Research topic selection [on hold]

I am planning to do my PhD in either sheaf theory or generalised functions.pls help me choose one among them by pointing the scope and relevance. thanks in advance.
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### A question on parallelizability

Is there a manifold $M$ such that for every $x\in M$, $M-\{x\}$ is not parallelizable but there is a finite set $S\subset M$, with $\# S>1$, such that $M-S$ is parallelizable?
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### An inequality concerning convexity and expectation

Assume $f$ and $g$ are nonnegative with $$\int_0^\infty f(x)dx=1=\int_0^\infty g(x)dx$$ and $$\int_0^\infty xf(x)dx<\infty > \int_0^\infty xg(x)dx$$ Is it true for nonnegative numbers $p$, $q$ ...
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### Geometry of the triangle: from the centroid to the orthocenter and beyond [on hold]

Let A', B', C' be points on the perpendicular bisectors of the sides of a triangle ABC so that the angles A'BC, B'CA and C'AB are equal. The lines AA', BB' and CC' concur. Which is the locus? Do you ...
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### Finite differencing scheme for Hamilton's equation with planar linkages

I am trying to simulate the movement of a planar linkage in the plane whose position and momentum obey Hamilton's equations, which is to say that $${{dq}\over{dt}} = {{dH}\over{dp}}$$ and ...
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### Representation of finite groups in a compact Lie group

Let $H$ be a finite $p$-group, and let $G$ be a compact connected Lie group. Then it is well-known that $[BH,BG]\cong Rep(H,G)$, where $BH$ and $BG$ are classifying spaces and $Rep(H,G)$ is the set ...
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### Reference for analyticity of $K$-theory

This is a follow-up to my last question, Homotopy excision for structured ring spectra -- reference?. The immediate reason why I care about Blakers-Massey theorems for ring spectra is to prove that ...
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### Most Regularity of a Polygon

Conseider $n$ electrons in an empty sphere. What structure do they make? This question have two cases: (i) if electrons should be sit on the boundry of sphere (one can suppose that the boundry of ...
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### Carlsson's spectrum BG^-V

In the appendix to Carlsson's "Equivariant stable homotopy and Segal's Burnside ring conjecture," he introduces a spectrum BG^-V associated to a G-representation V. It is like a Thom spectrum of the ...
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### Albanese map on a universal jacobian associated to a curve on an abelian surface

Given an abelian surface $A$ and a curve $C$ on it, consider the component $\{C\}$ of the Hilbert scheme of curves with the same cohomology class of $C$. I would say that it has a fibration structure ...
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### Error in trace of operator

Imagine you have a Schroedinger operator $H:=-\frac{d^2}{dx^2}+V$ with $V \in C[a,b]$ on some compact interval $[a,b]$. The boundary conditions are supposed to be taken in such a way that this ...
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### What do rank-2 tensor entries represent? What's their geometrical meaning? [on hold]

given a vector (with, say, 3 dimensions), if I multiply that with a second-rank tensor, I can make it change in both direction and magnitude (for that 2nd rank tensors are involved in vector-vector ...
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### Cohomology group vs sheaf of cohomology group

Suppose $F$ is a coherent sheaf on a smooth (algebraic or complex) variety $X$. Then we can consider the cohomology groups $$H^p(X,F)$$ for all $i$. Now, let we consider the sheaf ...
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### Singularities of secant varieties of rational normal curves

Let $C\subset\mathbb{P}^n$ be a rational normal curve of degree $n$, and let $Sec_k(C)\subset\mathbb{P}^n$ be its $k$-th secant variety. By Theorem 1.1 in this paper: ...
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### Linear map with two “incompatible” representations

Let $K$ be a field and let $V$ be the set of sequences $\{v_1,v_2,\dots\}$ of elements of $K$. If $A=\{a_1,a_2,\dots\}$ is also a sequence of elements of $K$, then it defines an endomorphism of $V$ ...