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Is K(R-Mod) compactly generated when R is an artin algebra?
I wonder if the triangulated category K(R-Mod) is compactly generated when R is an artin algebra? R-Mod denotes all left R-modules. I understand this would be true if R has finite …
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What is interesting/useful about big Witt Vectors?
p-typical Witt vectors are (among other things) a canonical way of associating to a perfect ring A of characteristic p a complete DVR of characteristic 0 with residue ring A genera …
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Galois theory and rational points on elliptic curves
I am in search of a concrete example [a concrete elliptic curve in Weierstrass form] of how Galois theory helps to find rational points on an elliptic curve. Chapter VI of Silverma …
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When should a moment polytope have “smooth” faces?
A codimension $d$ face of a polytope is called rationally smooth if it lies on only $d$ facets, because this is exactly the condition for the corresponding toric variety to have on …
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How to find examples of non-trival kernel of maps between Brauer groups Br(R) -> Br(K)
Background/Motivation: The facts about the Brauer groups I will be using are mainly in Chapter IV of Milne's book on Etale cohomology (unfortunately it was not in his online note). …
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What are the ‘standard’ applications of the duals of the adjoint functor theorems?
There are some 'standard' applications of the adjoint functor
theorem (AFT) and the special adjoint functor theorem (SAFT), for
example, the existence of a free $\tau$-algebra (wh …
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Must a Strong deformation retractible 3-manifold be homeomorphic to $\mathbb{R}^3$?
Assume $M$ is an open 3-manifold which can be deformation retracted to a point. Is it necessarily homeomorphic to $\mathbb R^3$?
(I know Whitehead had an example which is contract …
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Infinite collection of elements of a number field with very similar annihilating polynomials
Hello all, let $n$ be an integer $\geq 2$ and let $\alpha$ be an algebraic number
of degree $n$. Let $R$ be the ring of algebraic integers in ${\mathbb Q}(\alpha)$, and
let $B$ be …
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Latex Template for a Popular Math Journal
Can anyone offer a Latex template for a popular mathematics journal? It is easy to prepare a template for a technical journal with simple page layout but what I am looking for is s …
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Two finite groups with the same identical relations?
An identical relation on a group G is a word w in Fr, the free group on r elements (for some r), such that evaluating w on any r-tuple of elements of G yields the identity (this ju …
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Chance of something being fixed [closed]
I'm fixing a software defect that occurs 1 in n test runs. If I want to know that the probability of it being fixed is >= p for some 0 <= p < 1, how many times, m, do I need …
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Network flow gadget
Given m units of flow from a source node, and several possible destinations, is there a network flow gadget to force the flow to use only one destination? That is, send all m units …
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Given an integer n and a finite extension K of Q , find a polynomial of degree n that is irreducible over K
Given a positive integer n and a finite extension $K$ of $\mathbb{Q}$, can one always find an irreducible polynomial in $K[x]$ of degree n? What if $n$ is prime?
The natural appr …
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Can all G-connections on a Riemann surface X be induced by maps from X to G
There is the invariant Maurer–Cartan 1-form on a compact semi-simple Lie group G. So if we pull it back using a map from X to G then we get a G-connection on X. The question is, ca …
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Which method to apply to this problem?
I'm a programmer and I came a across an interesting problem. I'm sure there is a mathematical method or an algorithm to solve it, but I don't know where to start with the search no …
