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### Least Width of Planar Unimodal Curves with Unit Diameter

I am currently trying to find a way to define some notion of "roundness" for subtours in graphs and that definition should only be based on the comparing (sums of) edge length and on the order in ...
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### Verdier duality on excellent schemes

Let $f:X\rightarrow Y$ be a regular morphism between $k$-schemes which are noetherian and excellent with a funcion of dimension. In the book by Illusie-Laszlo-Orgogozo, there is a theorem (4.4.1 in ...
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### What is a Futaki invariant, what is the intuition behind it, and why is it important?

As the question title suggests, what is a Futaki invariant, what is the intuition behind it, and why is it important?
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### On Lie theory with special functions. [on hold]

I research in Lie theory with special functions. But I saw a lot of research on the use of lie theory in hyper-geometric and hermit and other .. Is there a new kind of functions, not considered ...
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### Weight filtration on certain Galois representations

Let $G$ be the absolute Galois group of a number field $K$. Let $\ell$ be a prime number. There are representations $\mathbb{Z}_\ell(n)$ of $G$ on the group of $\ell$-adic integers given by the ...
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### When comparing different bars on a bar chart, can you use percentage difference/change? [on hold]

I wanted to know if you can use percentage difference for discontinuous data
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### Zariski-closed subgroups of ${\mathbf G}_{\mathbf a}^n$

Let's work over an algebraically closed field $K$. A $1$-dimensional Zariski-closed connected subgroup of ${\mathbf G}_{\mathbf a}^n$ is isomorphic to ${\mathbf G}_{\mathbf a}^1$. If $K$ has ...
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### What are fun elementary subjects in probability?

I have to read several lectures on probability or applications of probability for high school students (of high level). There is no necessary part I must lecture, that is, my aim is just ...
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### Why do we want $p$-permutation modules in splendid equivalences?

First Rickard (in Splendid Equivalences: Derived Categories and Permutation Modules ) and then Rouquier (Block theory via stable and Rickard equivalences, Appendix A.1) define splendid equivalences ...
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### How do the heat kernel coefficients depend on the curvature tensor

this is a crosspost, the same question was asked first here: http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1640092/polynomial-in-the-components-of-the-curvature-tensor Since I have not received any answers ...
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### Rational homology sphere that is not Seifert manifold

I wonder if there is an example of rational homology sphere that is not a Seifert manifold. If there is, how can one construct such a rational homology sphere from a surgery of a knot in $S^3$?
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### The weak-star closure of closed left ideals corresponding to pure states

I asked this question at math.stackexchange and received no comment. Let $A$ be a C*-algebra and $\phi$ be a positive linear functional on $A$. Let $\tilde{\phi}$ be its unique $w^*$-continuous ...
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### Problem Formulation for SGD as Applied in Non-stationary Optimziation

This post is about how to formulate a time-varying (loss) problem. Basically I am looking for a target-tracking (time-varying) model which is amenable (error can be controlled) for stochastic ...
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### Suggestion for books in Pertubation theory with an emphasis on the theory

As the title suggest I am looking for another good coverage of the theory of Pertubation theory. Currently I am working through Murodock's book: Pertubations: Theory and Methods. But I am rest assure ...
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### When the reduced $C^*$-algebra of $\Gamma$ admits character then $\Gamma$ is amenable [on hold]

Suppose that $C^*_r(\Gamma)$ admits some character (homomorphism into $\mathbb{C}$)-here $\Gamma$ is discrete group and $C^*_r(\Gamma)$ is the closure of the image of the group ring $\mathbb{C}\Gamma$ ...
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### Are there any ways we can determine whether the $\Xi_x$-classes of natural numbers upto $\frac{1}{2}p^2_x -2$ exvert all non-trivial $\Xi_x$-classes? [on hold]

This question follows from the information provided below. Are there any ways we can determine whether the $\Xi_x$-classes of natural numbers up to $\frac{1}{2}p^2_x -2$ exvert all non-trivial ...
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### Is there a consistent arithmetically definable extension of PA that proves its own consistency?

I asked this on stackexchange with no answer. The negation would be the obvious generalization of Gödel's second incompleteness from r.e. extensions of PA to any arithmetically definable extension of ...
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### “Set theory” founded on lists rather than sets

On a computer, sets are often represented rather "indirectly / implicitly", e.g. in terms of some properties that they or their members satisfy. But some sets can be represented more "directly / ...
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### minimizing sum of distances [on hold]

I have three points A(-3.5, 0), B(2,0), C(0.3). Looking for D(0,d) such that AD + BD + CD is minimal. Fermat does not work here due to D lying on the y-axis. I thought I could just minimize the sum ...
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### Asymptotics for the number of abelian groups of order at most $x.$

The number of abelian groups of order $n$ (call it $a(n)$ is a studied subject (see http://oeis.org/A000688), but I can't seem to find any asymptotic results. Obviously, there is no asymptotic for ...
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### Maximal TB number and slice genus relation of a knot in any 3-manifold

Lisca-Stipsicz say that if a knot $K\subset{S^{3}}$ satisfies $g_{s}(K)>{0}$ and $TB(K)=2g_{s}(K)-1$ then $S^{3}_r(K)$ carries positive, tight contact structures for every ...
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### Should I learn information technology? [on hold]

I am 18 y.o., and I want to go to university. I will study Software Engineering (Computer science), but I do not know yet what I want to be exactly. I love math, phisycs, psychology, philosophy, ...
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### Cells in affine Weyl groups

This may sound like a very general question, which pretty much reflects my ignorance on the subject. In the case of Weyl groups $W$, there is a notion of left/right/double cells, which is roughly ...
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### Weak*-closure of finite rank operators on dual space

Given a Banach space $X$, we consider the space $B(X^*)$ of bounded, linear operators on $X^*$ with the weak*-topology from its canonical predual $B(X^*)_*=X^*\hat{\otimes}X$. What is ...
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### Continuous non-constant function with infinite intersections with horizontal line on a compact interval?

The title might be misleading, but whether such a function exists is what boggles me about the following problem: Let $f:\mathbb{R}\rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ be a continuous function such that for all ...
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### Wave-like equation with 1st order time derivative and non-constant coefficients

We start with the following recurrence relation for complex coefficients $c_{n,m}$: $$i\dot{c}_{n,m}(t) = \sqrt{(n+1)(n+2)(m-1)m}c_{n-2,m-2} + \sqrt{n(n-1)(m+1)(m+2)}c_{n+2,m-2}$$ where ...
Let $X\in \mathrm{sSet}$ and $FX$ be the Milnor's construction (model for $\Omega\Sigma |X|$) - in each dimension $n$ this is the free group on $X_n$ with one relation $*=1$. I'm interested in ...