# All Questions

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### Balanced binary code that “resists” local decoding?

I am looking for a construction that can be stated as the following coding problem: a binary code with good distance ($d = \Omega(n)$ where codeword length is $n$) that "resists local decoding" in the ...
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### Higher moments of information and Renyi entropy

For a given discrete probability distribution, Shannon entropy can be though as an expectation value $\langle - \log p \rangle$ (see also: What is entropy, really?, What is the role of the logarithm ...
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### abelian $\ell$-adic representations in $\widehat{SL(2,Z)}$

In Grothendieck's Esquisse he claims that the action of $$\text{Gal}(\mathbb Q)\to\text{Out}(\pi_1(M_{1,1})=\text{Out}(\widehat{SL(2,Z)})$$ obtained from the homotopy exact sequence of the étale ...
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### A bit of history of Verdier duality

I was wondering who originated the presentation of Verdier duality as an equivalence between categories of sheaves and cosheaves ? I learnt it reading Jacob Lurie's Higher Algebra and Justin Curry's ...
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### Lurie's approach to the bar-cobar adjunction

I've been trying to read Jacob Lurie's approach to the bar-cobar constructions (Higher algebra §5.2 in the 2014-09 version) but I don't recognize what I know about these constructions. I wonder if ...
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### Inverse Laplace Transformation [on hold]

I have a question about laplace transformation. $\frac{8s+4}{s^2+23}$ I tried to split them. $\frac{8s}{s^2+23}$ is similar to cos and $\frac{4}{s^2+23}$ is similar to sin. Can anyone help? ...
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### Limit involving modified Bessel Function of the second kind

I'm looking for the following limit $$\lim_{x\rightarrow 0} \frac{\sqrt{\frac{\text{BesselK}^{(2,0)}(0,x)}{\text{BesselK}(0,x)}}}{\log (x)}$$ I believe the limit is finite, and is near -0.578. ...
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### Modular forms and “too many symmetries”

How do we interpret Barry Mazur's quote of Modular forms are functions on the complex plane that are inordinately symmetric. They satisfy so many internal symmetries that their mere existence ...
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### Coherent cohomology of an abelian scheme and base change

Let $f\colon A \rightarrow S$ be an abelian scheme of dimension $d$. I would like a reference or an argument for the fact that $R^1f_* \mathcal{O}_A$ is locally free of dimension $d$ and that its ...
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### Is a free group a product of f.g subgroups of infinite index?

Let $F$ be a free group, and let $H,K \leq F$ be finitely generated subgroups of infinite index in $F$. Is it possible that for the set of products we have $HK = F$ ?
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### A More Advanced Version of Aluffi's Chapter 0

This is a crosspost of this question from MSE. Paulo Aluffi's Book, Algebra, Chapter 0 aims to teach basic algebra from a categorical viewpoint. The first chapters of the book, however, introduce ...
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### Connected components $0-1$ matrices [on hold]

Let $M$ be a $0-1$ matrix. Here a matrix has one component means we can traverse from a matrix entry $(i,j)$ which is $1$ to any other one by moving step of $(i\pm1,j),(i,j\pm1),(i\pm1,j\pm1)$ where ...
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### Complete solution set of a Convolutional Equation?

Here is a problem that am I stuck and I appreciate any help. In essence, I am trying to show that the only solutions for the described problem are the ones provided below. Best.. Setup: In what ...
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### A question on models of set theory and Lebesgue measure

In a question and an answer at MO, Joel David Hamkins showed that (if ZFC is consistent) there are models of ZFC in which $V\neq HOD$ and every $\Sigma_2$-definable set has a definable member. Let ...
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### equivalence in simplicial category

Let $(\mathcal{C},W)$ be a category with weak equivalences. One can build from $(\mathcal{C},W)$ its hammock localization $L^{H}(\mathcal{C},W)$ which is a simplicial category $\textit{ie}$ a category ...
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### automorphism of prime order for group of Lie type in

Thanks for any help. Suppose $S$ is a simple group of Lie type of prime characteristic $p$. we know that every automorphism of $S$ is composite of inner, diagonal, field and graph automorphism of ...
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### Is every projective space curve a set-theoretic intersection of two surfaces? What is known about this question?

I am sorry if this question has been already asked, couldn't find anything similar myself. I have recently recalled this long standing open problem of whether every curve in $\mathbb{P}^3(\mathbb{C})$ ...
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### Extension of homomorphism to place in quotient field, or of local ring to valuation ring in quotient field

Let be given a domain $R$ (that can be supposed to be integrally closed if this can help), and $\varphi$ an homomorphism of $R$ into a field $F$. $\varphi$ extends uniquely to a homomorphism ...
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### intuitive interpretation of analytic spread

I am studying analytic spreads from Bruns-Herzog's book. The definition is clear but calculation of the analytic spread of an ideal is hard for me in practice. I wonder if it is hard for you too. ...
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### Retractions and left-factoring morphisms

Let $\mathcal{C}$ be any category and let $A, B$ be objects. A retraction is a morphism $r: A\to B$ such that there is $s:B\to A$ such that $r\circ s:B\to B$ is the identity. A morphism $l: A\to B$ ...
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### What are interesting open problems in pseudo-differential operators?

May I ask what are some interesting open problems in the field of micro-local analysis (or classical analysis, semi-classical analysis, etc) using pseudo-differential operators? To my knowledge the ...
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### (Affine) Schemes and the point of view of morphisms with values in a field

Let $A$ be a commutative ring with unity. If $\varphi_1 : A \rightarrow K_1$ and $\varphi_2 : A \rightarrow K_2$ are ring morphisms from $A$ to fields, $\varphi_1$ and $\varphi_2$ are said to ...
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### sufficient condition of complete intersection [on hold]

According to Corollary 2.8 and the front part of Section 3 of this paper, if $X:= Q_1\bigcap Q_2\bigcap Q_3\subset \mathbb{P} _{\mathbb{C}}^{4}$ be a connected and purely $1$-dimensional intersection ...
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### Flow in graph. Proof [on hold]

Let $(S_1, \overline{S_1} ) , (S_2, \overline{S_2} )$ be minimum cuts in some network. Is it true that $(S_1 \cap S_2, \overline{S_1 \cap S_2)}$ is a minimum cut in this network?
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### show that L(X,Y)banach then Y banach

Let {Xα}α∈A be a collection of Banach spaces. It is easy to show that P={(xα):supα∥xα∥<∞} with ∥(xα)∥=supα∥xα∥ is a banach space. If the indexing set A is finite, then it is easy to show that P ...
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### Any two bivariate algebraically dependent polynomials are always in the same ring generated by some bivariate polynomial?

If $f(x,y)$ and $g(x,y)$ are two algebraically dependent polynomials over some field $k$, is it true that there exists a bivariate polynomial $p(x,y)$ such that both $f(x,y)$ and $g(x,y)$ are in the ...
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### An extension of group schemes admitting Neron models

Let $R$ be a discrete valuation ring, $K$ its field of fractions, and $$0 \rightarrow G_K' \rightarrow G_K \rightarrow G_K'' \rightarrow 0$$ a short exact sequence of smooth $K$-group schemes of ...
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### On transforming pair of bivariate polynomials to pair of univariate polynomials by applying polynomial map

We know that a polynomial map $f(x,y), g(x,y)$ is polynomial automorphism if there exists polynomials $p(x,y)$ and $q(x,y)$ such that $f(p,q)$=x and $g(p,q)=y$. Jacobian conjecture tries to ...
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### Writing an integral for a bounded volume [on hold]

Good day folks! I'm trying to write an integral which could represent the volume of the shaded area below. However my integral calculus is quite poor, so I need some help on that equation. ...
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### Graduate program applications that require questionnaires and other non-letter material

In the December 2014 AMS Notices, a letter to the editor (http://www.ams.org/notices/201411/rnoti-p1311.pdf) by Deconinck and Medlock addresses the problem of (math) graduate programs requiring letter ...
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### Is the space of real conics with a singular point an orientable manifold?

Consider the space of non zero real homogeneous degree $2$ polynomials in three variables upto scaling. This space is $\mathbb{R} \mathbb{P}^5$. The zero set of such a polynomial gives a real curve ...
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### A question in Sasakian geometry

Let $(S,\eta, \xi)$ be a Sasakian manifold with killing vector field $\xi$, then we have the following exact sequence $$0\to <\xi>\to TS\to \frac{TS}{<\xi>}\to 0$$. Can ...
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### ULU Decomposition of a matrix

Let $g \in GL_n(\mathbb{F}_q)$. Is it true that we can always write $g = u_1lu_2$, where $u_1$ and $u_2$ are upper-triangular and $l$ is lower-triangular? Note that I'm not requiring that the matrices ...