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### Problem on Shell Method [on hold]

I've been on this problem for awhile and have no idea how to figure it out. Some help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you! http://i.stack.imgur.com/I4dP7.png
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### mod p cohomology ring of alternating groups

Let $A_n$ be the alternating group of $\{1,2,\cdots,n\}$. (1). What is the cohomology ring $$H^*(A_4;\mathbb{Z}/3)$$ and its Steenrod operation $P^i$'s? (2). Are there general results about the ...
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### Young-Fibonacci lattice and purely periodic continued fractions

The Fibonacci lattice $\mathcal{F}$ is the poset of all finite words consisting of 1's and 2's where a word $v$ covers a word $u$ if $v$ is obtained from $v$ by either (a) inserting a 1 in $u$ prior ...
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### Maximally nonplanar graphs [on hold]

Is there any way to characterize maximally non-planar graphs? For example, given a random collection of k-regular graphs, there is a clear distinction between the planar and non-planar graphs by ...
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### From interpolation to separation

Lusin's separation theorem states that, if $A$ and $B$ are disjoint analytic subsets of a Polish space, then there is a Borel set $X$ separating them ($A\subseteq X$, $B\cap X=\emptyset$). Craig's ...
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### What are retracts of polynomial rings?

Is there a known example of a ring endomorphism $f: \mathbb{Z}[x_1, \ldots, x_n] \to \mathbb{Z}[x_1, \ldots, x_n]$ such that $f \circ f = f$ but whose image is not isomorphic to a polynomial ring? ...
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### Bertini-type theorem in positive characteristic [on hold]

Let $f:X \to Y$ be a morphism of finite type of irreducible schemes over an algebraically closed field of characteristic $0$. Assume that $Y$ is non-singular. Let $x \in X$ be a closed point and ...
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### Diophantine equations over natural numbers [on hold]

Are there versatile techniques that are applicable to deciding if a system of multivariate quadratic diophantine equations with one determinantal restriction has solutions over natural numbers? In ...
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### Equivariant Fredholm operators classify equivariant K-theory

Let $\mathcal{F}$ be the space of Fredholm operators on a separable Hilbert space $H$ with the topology induced by the operator norm. If $X$ is compact, Atiyah-Jänich proved that ...
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### On compact operators with domain $c_{0}$

Let $X$ be a Banach space and $T$ be a compact operator from $c_{0}$ into $X^{*}$. Let $\epsilon>0$. Is there a compact operator $S$ from $X$ into $l_{1}$ such that $S^{*}|_{c_{0}}=T$ and ...
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### Minimal immersions of the 2-sphere

Following the ideas of S.-S. Chern, J. L. M. Barbosa associated a holomorphic curve in $\mathbb{C}P^m$ to a minimal immersion of the 2-sphere into the $2m$-sphere in his 1972 paper. However, his ...
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### Does every connected component of a covering space over a connected base intersect all the fibers of the covering space?

This statement is used without explanation in the proof of a Corollary to Proposition 4.3.5, pages 210-211 of the book "Algèbre et théories galoisiennes" by R. and A. Douady, second edition, Cassini, ...
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### A matching that covers vertices with maximum degree

We have a graph G with maximum degree $\Delta$. The induced subgraph on vertices with degree equal to $\Delta$ is a bipartite graph (while the original graph is not). Prove that G has a matching that ...
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### Shortest path problem [on hold]

Say that $G'$ is a graph re-weighted from $G$ using the rule: $w' (u, v) = w(u, v) − f(u) + f(v)$, where $f$ always produce the positive results for any nodes. Can we prove that the shortest path ...
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### Why is taking the inverse Laplace transform valid in this case?

Assume $F \in L^2([0,\infty))$, so that the Laplace-transform $L[F]$ is well-defined. Assume furthermore, that $$y \mapsto \frac{L[F](iy)}{1+L[F](iy)}$$ is in $L^2(\mathbb{R})\cap L^1(\mathbb{R})$, ...
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### Modulus of continuity of analytic functions [on hold]

Let $H$ be the class of all analytic functions of the unit disk onto itself. For $r\in (0,2)$ let $$h(r)=\sup\{|f(z)-f(w)|: f\in H, |z-w|\le r\}.$$ How to determine $h$ explicitly? Schwarz lemma ...
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### Exotic 2-adic lifts of mod $2$ Steinberg idempotent

Denote $B_n$ the Borel subgroup of $Gl_n(Z/2)$, i.e., the subgroup of upper triangular matrices, $\Sigma _n$ the subgroup of permutation matrices. The (conjugate) Steinberg idempotent is defined to be ...
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### Geometric interpretation of the conjugation operation in the dual Steenrod algebra

As the dual mod 2 Steenrod algebra, $A$, is a Hopf algebra, it has the conjugation operation, $\chi:A\to A$. Milnor also gives a formula for this. I wonder if there is any source telling about a ...
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### Cannot multivectors be classified more easily than general tensors?

This is sort of a spinoff of Is there a useful generalization of the Schmidt decomposition to the tensoring together of 3 or more vector spaces? - seems to be almost hopeless, but maybe some partial ...
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### To calculate $Tor_1^G(\mathbb{Z},N_{ab})$ and $Tor_1^Q(\mathbb{Z},N_{ab})$

Let $G$ be a finite $p$-group and $N$ be a normal subgroup of $G$. I wish to calculate $Tor_1^G(\mathbb{Z},N_{ab})$ and $Tor_1^Q(\mathbb{Z},N_{ab})$, where $Q=G/N$. I could not found any lecture notes ...
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### Existence of free operators, independent and with given distributions

Excuse me if the question is not appropriate for Mathoverflow. I havs asked it in math.stackexchange, but did not get any response. And so, I dared to put it here. I am trying to learn free ...
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### Best way to find recent papers in a special field of mathematics?

My subjects of interest are Geometry of Banach spaces, renorming theory and fixed point theory. When I want to find recent papers in these fields of mathematics, mostly, I search name of paper, say, ...
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### What's the topology on the mapping space $Map_H(G, Y)$ when $G$ is not finite

When $G$ is a finite group and $H$ a closed subgroup of it, the sets of right cosets $H\backslash G$ has the discrete topology on it. Let $Y$ be a $H-$space. We have the $G-$homeomorphism ...
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### positions of a methane molecule with carbon atom at the origin

Let $\text{CH}_4$ be the molecule of Methane: The four hydrogen atoms form vertices of a regular tetrahedron with the carbon atom in the center of the regular tetrahedron. Here we regard all atoms ...
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### Angular distribution of zero sets of sparse polynomials

Consider a sequence of complex polynomials $f \in \mathbb{C}[z]$, $f(0) \neq 0$, that are composed of a negligible fraction $o(\deg{f})$ of monomials. Are the zeros of such polynomials necessarily ...

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