# All Questions

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### Publication in proceedings

Why and how publishing a paper in proceedings? What are the difference with a "classical" journal? What's the list of the main proceedings in which one can publish? Do proceedings papers (never, ...
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### How rigid can a rigid object be in GR?

Consider a cubic lattice of space probes, with rocket motors and lasers to measure distance, and a clock to measure time. As they more from free space to the vicinity of some black hole, they try to ...
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### Infinite simple p-groups with only trivial irreps in characteristic p

Is there a prime $p$ and an infinite simple $p$-group $G$ such that for any field $K$ of characteristic $p$ the only irreducible $KG$-module, whether finite or infinite dimensional, is trivial (that ...
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### Characterization of the Riemann curvature tensor

Let $(M^n,g)$ be a Riemannian manifold, $a\in M$ be a fixed point. It it well known that there exists a coordinate system near $a$ (e.g. the normal one) such that $$g_{ij}(x)=\delta_{ij}+O(|x|^2).$$ ...
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### Relationship of clique, independence, and chromatic numbers

For any graph $G=(V,E)$ let $\bar{G}$ be the complement graph. Is $$\text{inf}\big\{\frac{\omega(G)+\omega(\bar{G})}{\chi(G)} : G \text{ is a finite graph}\big\}$$ known? If not, what lower bounds are ...
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### Probe permutationally matrix extreme properties-II

Call $S_{r}$, collection of $0/1$ matrices of rank atmost $r$ that increase rank if any $1$ is changed to $0$. Given $M\in\{0,1\}^{n\times n}$ of rank $r$, what is probability that $M$ could be ...
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### regular polyhedra (and polytopes) in hyperbolic geometry, and generalisations

While there exist regular tesselations of the hyperbolic plane with arbitrary regular polygons, there are no new regular polyhedra in hyperbolic (3D) space. This being quite trivial, it is probably ...
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### Isolated singularities of harmonic mappings

Can a homeomorphic harmonic mapping $f=(u,v,w):\Omega\to \Omega'$ have isolated singular points. Here $\Delta f =0$, and singular point is a point with zero Jacobian. This will extend Lewy theorem for ...
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### A lower-dimensional algebraic topology problem between homology group and fundamental group

Let $$A\stackrel{\alpha}{\longrightarrow}B\stackrel{\beta}{\longrightarrow}C\quad\quad (1)$$ be a short sequence of abelian groups and homomorphisms. We say that the ...
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### Do the real numbers “know” that they are countable in a larger model?

(This was first posted to math.stackexchange but had no answers there after several days): Let ${\mathbb R}$ be the set of real numbers in whatever is your favorite model of $ZFC$. Then (by Levy ...
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### Whats the difference between math.SE and mathoverflow? [migrated]

i wanted to know that : Whats the difference between math.SE and mathoverflow ? Are they of SE community or different ?
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### How to solve this using trig idenities [on hold]

(sin(x) + sin(-x))(cos(x) + cos(-x)) I am confused how you get 0 for the answer, can someone explain how my book go to that answer. Like the steps you did. Thanks :)
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### Zeros of a Real Analytic Function [on hold]

Let $f:[0,1] \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ be a non-zero real analytic function. Consider $Z(f) \subseteq [0,1]$ as the set where $f$ vanishes. What can we say about $Z(f)$? This is (i) finite, (ii) ...
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### Journals on stochastic approximation/control theory [on hold]

What are some good journals on stochastic approximation/control theory? Thanks
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### Uniqueness of solution of elliptic equation with exponential nonlinearity

Consider the following equation $$\Delta v + p(r)e^v = 0$$ on $\mathbb{R}^n$ where $p(r)$ is a polynomial in $r = |(x_1,..., x_n)|$. I want to understand when equations like these have unique ...
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### The Jordan Plane and Enveloping Algebras

Let $k$ denote a field of characteristic $0$ (assume algebraically closed for convenience). Define $J=k\langle x,y|[x,y]=y^{2}\rangle$. This noncommutative algebra (which can be viewed as a derivation ...
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### Density of numbers whose prime factors all come from a fixed congruence class

Let $q$ be a positive integer greater than one, and let $a$ be an integer such that $\gcd(a,q) = 1$. Define $$D(a,q) = \{n \in \mathbb{N} : p | n \Rightarrow p \equiv a \pmod{q} \}.$$ Do we know the ...
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### The Birthday Paradox [on hold]

I was looking at the birthday paradox, and the many solutions. One of them that came up was the Poisson Distribution. The website I was looking at detailed the process to solve ...
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### Property of summations [on hold]

Suppose to have the following identity: $$\sum_{i=i_0}^{i_1}\sum_{j=j_0}^{j_1} f(i,j) = \sum_{i=i_0}^{i_1}\sum_{j=j_0}^{j_1} f(i,j)g(i,j),$$ for 'good' indexes $i,j$ and some functions $f,g$. What ...
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### Bertini theorem for big divisors and klt pairs

Let $X$ be a smooth projective variety and let $D$ be a big $\mathbb Q$-divisor on $X$. Assume that for $m$ large $|mD|$ has no fixed components. Is there a $\mathbb Q$-divisor $D'\equiv D$ so that ...
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### History of preservation theorems in forcing theory

For my honours thesis, I am studying a general preservation theorem using a framework provided by Shelah. I am mainly concerned about revised countable support iteration of $\dot{S}$-semiproper ...
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### Coupon Collector Problem for Non-Uniform Coupons: Bound on the number of missed Coupons

Suppose $\mathcal B=\{1,2,..,b\}$ is the set of all possible coupons, with $\mathbf p = ( p_1,p_2,...,p_b)$ assigning the probability of occurrence for all coupons in $\mathcal B$. The "traditional ...
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### Coarsely trivial Borel cross section for $G\to G/N$

Let $G$ be a locally compact group, and let $N$ be a closed, normal subgroup, and let $\pi\colon G\to G/N$ be the quotient homomorphism. It is known that there exists a Borel cross section, i.e., a ...
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### Are Zariski connected and closed semisimple subgroups of semisimple and simply connected algebraic groups again simply connected? [on hold]

Let $G$ be a semisimple and simply connected linear algebraic group over $\mathbb{C}$. Let $H$ be a connected, Zariski closed and semisimple linear algebraic $\mathbb{Q}$-subgroup of $G$. Is $H$ a ...
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### Infinite dimensional Cauchy-Lipschitz theorem [duplicate]

From the answers to Mathoverflow Question "Continuity in Banach space for non-linear maps", it is possible to infer that the assumption of the Cauchy-Lipschitz theorem for the autonomous equation  ...
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### Probe permutationally matrix extreme properties

Suppose given $M\in\{0,1\}^{n\times n}$ of rank $r$. Assume that changing even a single $1$ to $0$ in $M$ raises rank. Does it follow that $M$ is permutationally equivalent to a block diagonal ...
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### Why are 1 and -1 eigenvalues of this matrix?

This is a subject I've been working on for a very long time now, but still did not manage to fully understand the interesting properties of this matrix $\mathbf{A}$. First, let's define two matrices: ...
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### Potentiality classes and Borel reductions

In a 1998 paper by Hjorth, Kechris, and Louveau, there was a definition given of a "potentiality class." That is, given an invariant equivalence relation $E$ on a standard Borel space $X$, we say $E$ ...
Let $X$ be a smooth irreducible projective curve contained in $\mathbb{P}^3$ and $Y$ be another reduced but not necessarily irreducible curve in $\mathbb{P}^3$. Denote by $P$ the Hilbert polynomial of ...