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Expository papers for Feit–Thompson Theorem [duplicate]

Feit–Thompson theorem states that every finite group of odd order is solvable. Its proof is near 300 pages so it is definitely not an easy paper to read without a prior knowledge about the general ...
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Reducing the degrees of freedom in unitary columns

Let $U = diag([U_1, U_2, ..., U_N])$ be a block-diagonal $NM \times NM$ unitary matrix, where each $U_j$ is a unitary $M \times M$ matrix. Furthermore, let $Q_e = kron(I_M, Q)$ be the Kronecker ...
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A clarification regarding analytic perturbation of metrics and Laplacian

This question is in reference to the following Mathoverflow question and the accepted answer to it. It seems to me that it is taken for granted that if the metric $g_t$ perturbs real analytically in ...
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A self-square group is a group with extra structure, which encodes the fact that the group is isomorphic to its own direct square. To be exact, the group $G$ has a special element $1$, a unary ...
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An abstract zero-sum problem

I would like to know whether the problem described below has appeared in the literature and/or whether similar questions have been studied. I would be very happy to find some references or, if none ...
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probability of a quadratic form being nonnegative at a random point

I am looking for good and explicit lower and upper bounds on the probability that $x^TGx\ge 0$, where $G$ is a symmetric matrix with zero trace and $x$ is a vector whose components are independent ...
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Is there any pattern to the continued fraction of $\sqrt[3]{2}$?

Is there any pattern to the continued fraction of $\sqrt[3]{2}$ ? Wolfram Alpha returns for cube root of 2: $\sqrt[3]{2}=$ [1; 3, 1, 5, 1, 1, 4, 1, 1, 8, 1, 14, 1, 10, 2, 1, 4, 12, 2, 3, 2, 1, 3, ...
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Generalization of Stewart's theorem?

I'm curious about the generalization of Stewart's theorem to more dimensions. MathWorld mentions that there is a generalization done by Bottema, but I could not find much information on it. All I ...