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If 2-manifolds are homeomorphic and smooth, are they diffeomorphic? [on hold]

Perhaps this question has already been asked on Mathoverflow. I mean this question in a global sense. A friend mentioned it to me today, and I started thinking about it. I'm not sure how to prove it. ...
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Does any one know what this problem is called?

Given two sets $A$ and $B$, members of $A$ have been split into subsets $S_i$ which maybe they have intersections with each other and union of them maybe not equal to $A$ determine whether there is a ...
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Diffusion Equation [on hold]

Kindly give me suggestions on my following assignment of Simulations in Fluid Flow: Solve the following differential equation for transport of f(x,y,z,t) by MS Excel ∂f/∂t+Ux ∂f/∂x+Uy ∂f/∂z+Uz ...
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A combinatorial and number theoretical problem [on hold]

Given N positive integers, not necessarily distinct, how many ways you can take 4 integers from the N numbers such that their GCD is 1. For example,N=10 and the positive integers are ...
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Is elliptic curve point division defined over the field of real numbers?

An elliptic curve is defined over the field of real numbers: $y^2=x^3 + ax + b$ A point P and scalar n can be multiplied using a combination of point doubling and adding. What about point division? ...
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How did Bernoulli prove L'Hôpital's rule?

To prove L'Hôpital's rule, the standard method is to use use Cauchy's Mean Value Theorem (and note that once you have Cauchy's MVT, you don't need an $\epsilon$-$\delta$ definition of limit to ...
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Decomposition of an integral operator into a composition

I've been musing about the following question for a while now. Given an integral operator $G$ defined by $$(Gf)(x) = \int_0^1 G(x,u) f(u)\,du$$ Is it possible to decompose this into two separate ...
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Find the vector component of vector u orthogonal to vector a [on hold]

I have vector u = (-2, 3, 1) and vector a = (-2, 2, 2). How do I find the vector component of u orthogonal to a? I've done the cross product and I get (-4,-2,-2), but I am assuming that this is also ...
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how to solve 3 6-degree polynomial equations for 3 variables?

I am a physicist and need to solve three $6$-order polynomial equations for $3$ unknowns $(p, q, r)$. Here is the system of equations looks like: $$\sum(A[n]*p^i*q^j*r^k) = 0,$$ ...
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I came across this integration in my studies. $\int_{-\infty}^{\infty}|F((w_\textbf{_} - \hat{w_\textbf{_}})\tau) |^2 . d\tau$ It uses the Faddeeva function which is $F(z) = e^{-z^2}erfc(-iz)$. I ...
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What is the best reference for Spectral theory?

I'm studying Bernard Aupetit: A Primer on Spectral Theory but the textbook we are using is a little bit heavy going for me. Is there a best book to learn about these things? Thank you.
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Galois group for 0-dimensional motives

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how to reduce 3-colorable graph to this? [on hold]

suppose we have a finite set X and a set S of subsets of X and we want to determine is there a subset S' of S such that all members of X belong to exactly one set in S' I think the best problem to ...
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E- and A-algorithms for finite arithmetic prime progressions and other sets

There is certain Eratosthenes spirit to my problem (See below). First of all I'd like to stress the mathematical aspect of my question. Also, my question does not amount to the divide and conquer ...
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Question on the partial differential equations in complex space

As is known most of the theory now developed for partial differential equations is in the real space, especially function space like Sobolev space, BMO space, $L^p$ space, etc. However is there some ...
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Piercing of subspaces in a projective space?

The "piercing subspace" problem may be stated as follows: There are given several subspaces in a projective space, rather non-intersecting. Find an additional subspace of a prescribed dimension that ...
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A fredholm index associated with two vector fields generating a 2 dimensional foliation

Let $M$ be a compact manifold and $X,Y$ be two independent vector fields on $M$ with $[X,Y]=0$. Let $\mathcal{F}$ be the 2 dimensional foliation associated with the distribution ...
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Decomposing representations of finite groups of Lie type via computer

This is related to my previous question here. Let me remind you what that question asked: Let $\text{St}_n(\mathbb{F}_q)$ be the Steinberg module (over $\mathbb{C}$) for ...
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Restricted singular values of random matrix

Let $X \in \mathbb{R}^{p\times p}$ be a large square matrix, consisting of i.i.d. Gaussian entries. Then it is known that the singular values of $X$ follow the Marchenko-Pastur law. Now let's ...
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Does anyone want to see the critical figure for n= 7? [on hold]

I watched Ronald Lewis Graham's youtube blurb for the "happy ending problem". it's about 5 minutes long. I was able to supply him with the positions of the points for the case: n=7. it looks like a ...
Is it true that $S(O(p) \times O(q))$ is the only proper subgroup of $SO(p,q)$ of full rank acting on the natural representation $\mathbb{R}^{p+q}$ of $SO(p,q)$ that stabilizes a $p$-dimensional ...