# All Questions

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### identifiability of a linear regression

If we have a generative model $X_2=X_1a_1+\varepsilon$ where $\varepsilon \sim \mathcal{N}(0,\sigma_2^2)$ do we have $X_1=X_2a_2+\varepsilon '$ where $\varepsilon \sim \mathcal{N}(0,\sigma_1^2)$ ...
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### Asymptotics and combinatorics

Wright's expansion of $$(1-z)^b\exp[A/(1-z)^c], \text{for } A > 0, 0<c<1\tag{1}$$ is, in the words of the late, great Mark Kac "well known to those that know it well". (See, for example, ...
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### Geometric Intuition of $P^+$ in Modular Tensor Categories

I'm currently reading through Bakalov and Kirillov's "Lectures on Tensor Categories and Modular Functors," and I am having some difficulty understanding the definition of $p^\pm$ given on page 49. ...
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### $C^1$ stability conjecture on non-compact manifolds

In the study of dynamical systems, the link between structural stability and Smale's Axiom A has been explored by many authors. One of the important outcomes of this endeavor was the proof of $C^1$ ...
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### Length inequalities in trees and CAT(0) spaces

I have a family of possibly related questions. Let me start with an elementary one: Question 1. Fix an integer $n$. For which collections of real numbers $a_{ij}$, $i, j = 1, \dots, n$, is it true ...
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### Dimension of a set detected by a homology class

A colleague asked me a topology question which comes down to this: Suppose that $M$ is a smooth $n$-manifold, and $C\subset M$ is a closed set such that $H_{n-p}(M-C)\to H_{n-p}(M)$ is not surjective. ...
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### Jacobian change of basis matrix for different dimensions

I am considering a real Lie group $G$ acting transitively on an open set $U$ in a real Euclidean space of lower dimension. Given a smooth, compactly supported function $f: G \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$, I ...
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### Lifting Abelian Varieties to p-adic fields

Assume I have an abelian variety $A$ over a finite field $k$ of characteristic $p$. Work of Norman and Oort (1980) says I can lift $A$ to an abelian variety $\mathscr{A}$ over some characteristic ...
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### Subgroups of $SL_3(\mathbb{Z})$ that are finitely generated, Zariski-dense, infinite index, and torsion-free

My question stems from Misha's answer of a MathOverflow question. Misha supplied the following question in his answer: Open question: Does there exist a finitely generated Zariski-dense ...
A collection of $t$ sets $A_i$ is called a t-sunflower if $A_i \cap A_j = Z$ for all $i \neq j$ for some fixed $Z$. A well-known conjecture of Erdos and Rado says that in any $k$-uniform family of ...