# All Questions

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### A possibly surprising appearance of Lucas numbers

Let $S$ be the set of polynomials defined as follows: $0$ is in $S$, and if $p$ is in $S$, then $x \cdot p$ is in $S$, so that $S$ "grows" in generations: $g(0)=\{0\}$, $g(1)=\{1\}$, $g(2)=\{1,x\}$, ...
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### Automorphisms of ideals of $\mathbb{C}[t]$

Let $f(t)\in\mathbb{C}[t]$, and let $I_f$ be the ideal in $\mathbb{C}[t]$ generated by $f(t)$. The ideal $I_f$ has a natural $\mathbb{C}$-algebra structure. My question is the following: For ...
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### Asymmetric random walk on the line with barriers

The most commonly considered random walk on the line takes one step left or right with equal probability until a barrier is reached (if there are any barriers). More generally, suppose we fix any ...
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### Linearization of line bundle [on hold]

In the definition of the linearization of a line bundle in Dolgashev book, he had adding the condition that the zero section is $G$-invariant; I see that this condition is contained in the first one, ...
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### “Prime” fusion rings

Surely this concept is known! (But I don't recall seeing it - maybe under another name? But "prime" is the obvious name choice.) Example. Open the Gepner/Kapustin paper at ...
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### de Rham cohomology of smooth affine varieties

Let $U$ be a smooth variety over $\mathbb{C}$. We know that there exists a smooth compactification $X$ such that $X-U$ is a normal crossings divisor $D$ and that the de Rham cohomology of $U$ can be ...
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### Expectation of trace of nth power of unitary matrices

I am trying to find the answer of $$\int dU \ |Tr(U^m)|^2$$ where $m\in\mathbb{N}$ and $U$'s are unitary matrices in $\textit{U}(n)$ and $dU$ is a normalized Haar measure. In the case $m=1$, the ...
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### Space of p-harmonic functions

Let $\Omega \subset\mathbb{R}^d$, $d \geq 2$, be a sufficiently nice set to make the following question meaningful. I am interested in the space of p-harmonic functions on $\Omega$; that is, the ...
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### Fano manifold admit an smooth anti-canonical divisor?

Let $M$ ba a compact Kaehler Fano manifold. Under which conditions $M$ admit a smooth anti-canonical divisor $D$
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### Can a Brownian motion be fast at its extrema?

After pondering this MO question > Location of maximum of Brownian motion with rough drift <, I wonder whether a Brownian motion can be fast (i.e. beats the law of the iterated logarithm) at its ...
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### An example of two cofibrant dg categories whose tensor product is not cofibrant

I have been reading the paper by Toën "The homotopy theory of dg categories and derived Morita theory" where in chapter 4 it is stated that the tensor product of two cofibrant dg categories $C$ and ...
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### Looking for the correct version of a wrong statement from Barvinok's book on convex polyhedra

The book I'm concerned with is "Integer Points in Polyhedra" by A. Barvinok. A real finite-dimensional vector space $V$ defines the following two spaces, also real. $\mathcal{P}(V)$ generated by ...
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### When the vertex covering number is smaller than the chromatic number

For any graph $G=(V,E)$ let $\tau(G)$ be the minimum cardinality of a vertex cover of $G$. As noted here, we have $\tau(G) \geq \chi(G) - 1$ for all finite graphs $G$. I'm interested in graphs $G$ ...
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### A question related to metric Diophantine approximation

In metric Diophantine approximation you are often interested in finding conditions on $(\phi(q))_{q \geq 1}$ which guarantee that $$\left| \alpha - \frac{p}{q} \right| < \frac{\phi(q)}{q}$$ has ...
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### Proof of closed walk generating function identity

In 'Spectral Conditions for the Reconstrucibility of a Graph' Godsil and McKay give a short proof of an identity (Lemma 2.1) that relates the generating function for the number of closed walks ...
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### Uniform $L^p-L^{p'}$ bound of a Fourier multiplier

Let $(\tau,\xi)\in\mathbb{R}\times \mathbb{R}^n$, and consider the function $$m_{\epsilon}(\tau,\xi)=\frac{1}{\tau+|\xi|^4+\epsilon|\xi|^2+i}$$ in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$. My first question is that does ...
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### How to make the Capelli's identity less mysterious?

The formulation of the Capelli's identity is very elementary; it has important applications in invariant theory and representation theory, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capelli%27s_identity Let's ...
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### Do free profinite groups satisfy Howson's theorem?

Let $F$ be a free profinite group, and let $A,B \leq F$ be finitely generated closed subgroups. Must $A \cap B$ be finitely generated?
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### What is the purpose of the flat/fppf/fpqc topologies?

There have been other similar questions before (e.g. What is your picture of the flat topology?), but none of them seem to have been answered fully. As someone who originally started in ...
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### On a particular Cayley Graph

Pick a prime number $P$. Pick $M$ positive numbers $g_1<\dots<g_M$ each less than $P-1$. Denote $G_{P}[g_1,\dots,g_M]$ to be Cayley graph on $P-1$ vertices generated by $g_1,\dots,g_M$ as ...
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### Antoine's Necklace and positive Hausdorff/Lebesgue measure

I have the following question: The usual construction of the Antoine's Necklace produces a Cantor of $1$-dimensional Hausdorff measure in $\mathbb R^3$. I would like to know whether one could adapt ...
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### Sensitivity of inverse normal cdf

Let $Q^{-1}$ be the inverse function of a standard normal CDF. For $0 < \epsilon < p,p' < 1 - \epsilon$, how much does the function $Q^{-1}$ change as a function of $|p - p'|$? Any useful ...
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### recognising weak equivalences of simplicial sets

$\require{AMScd}$ I am interested in detecting using a lifting property when a map $f:X\to Y$ in $sSet$ (with the standard Kan model structure) is a weak equivalence. In the paper Weak Equivalences ...
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### Can we predict next sample using the existing samples? [on hold]

Suppose that I have 18 data points and I'm sampling 3 data points each time. Suppose that I have 60 samples (each has 3 data points). Can we predict the next sample (of 3 points) from the existing ...
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### Proof of a Proposition regarding the reduction of N-torsion groups on elliptic curves

In Diamond-Shurman A first course in Modular forms p.334 Prop. 8.4.4. It is stated, For E elliptic curve over $\bar{\mathbb{Q}}$ with good reduction at the prime ideal $\mathfrak{p}$ the reduction ...
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### Separating Two Groups of Data using Fisher's Linear Discriminant

I found an article (starting on page 8) that gives a neat method for finding the line/plane/hyperplane that maximizes the separation between two groups of data points in n-dimensions. It uses Fisher's ...
### Extending natural transformations of triangulated functors on $D^b(\mathbb P^1)$
Let $\mathcal T = D^b(\mathbb P^1)$, the bounded derived category of $\mathbb P^1$ over a field $k$. It is well known that $\mathcal T$ admits a strong and full exceptional sequence \$\{\mathcal O, ...