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### Number of ways 3 people can take up to 3 stones from a bag containing 5 stones

Number of ways 5 people can take stones from a bag containing 5 stones where the first persons may take up to 3 stones (0 is allowed), second can take up to as many as the first person took, third may ...
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### Functions with scalar times orthogonal Jacobian

I am interested in understanding functions $f:\mathbb{R}^d \rightarrow \mathbb{R}^d$ whose Jacobian at every point $x \in \mathbb{R}^d$ is a scalar times an orthogonal matrix. I've seen a similar ...
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### Examples to keep in mind while reading the book 'The Admissible Dual…' by Bushnell and Kutzko and the importance of Interwining of representations

I am a beginner in the field of representation theory. I was reading the book 'The Admissible Dual of $GL(N)$ Via Compact Open Subgroups' by Bushnell and Kutzko. Let me first describe the book a ...
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### “Identity tensor transpose” as a map $M_n \hat{\otimes} M_n \to M_n \overline{\otimes} M_n$

Equipping $M_n$ with its usual operator space structure, $\newcommand{\ptp}{\widehat{\otimes}}$ we can form the projective tensor product of operator spaces $M_n\ptp M_n$. In particular this puts a ...
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### Picard groups of quartic K3 surfaces

Does anyone know where I can find examples of quartic K3 surfaces for which the Picard group is known? I'm really interested in examples where there are explicit constructions of the divisors ...
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### Irreducible algebraic sets via irreducible polynomials

There are many results about irreducible polynomials over finite fields: we know a cardinality of all irreducible polynomials with given degree, we know explicit examples of irreducible polynomials, ...
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### Milnor descent for ring spectra

Suppose given a homotopy cartesian square of (commutative) ring spectra (or (c)dgas) $\begin{matrix}A & \to & A_1 \\ \downarrow & & \downarrow \\ A_2 & \to &A'\end{matrix}.$ ...
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### Even Galois representations “mod p”

Consider an irreducible $\mathrm{mod}$ $p$ representation: $$\rho: \mathrm{Gal}(\bar{\mathbb{Q}}/\mathbb{Q})\to\mathrm{GL}_2(\bar{\mathbb{F}}_p)$$ If $\rho$ is odd, it was conjectured by Serre in ...
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### Geometric quantization: why are the prequantum operators self-adjoint?

I'm reading a bit about geometric quantization and, among the axioms of this construction, is one requiring that the operator $\hat f = -\textrm i \hbar \nabla _{X_f} + f$ associated to the classical ...
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### Integral representation of adjoint L-factor for GL(2)

My question is about a local computation in the paper of Gelbart and Jacquet, "A relation between automorphic representations of GL2 and GL3", from 1978. Let $\sigma$ be an irreducible smooth complex ...
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### Is it possible to have a research career while checking the proof of every theorem that you cite?

A colleague raised the above question with me; more precisely he said: Suppose that a mathematician were resolved not to publish any theorems unless they had checked the proof of every theorem ...
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### How nontrivial can “central extensions of ribbon fusion categories” be?

In a sense, this is a follow up on this question, but one PhD programme later. Let $\mathcal{C}$ be ribbon fusion. By $\mathcal{C}'$, we denote the symmetric centre, i.e. the full subcategory of ...