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Units of $\mathbf Z[X,Y]/(P(X,Y))$

Let $P(X,Y)\in \mathbf Z[X,Y]$ be an irreducible polynomial and let $A$ denote the quotient ring $\mathbf Z[X,Y]/(P)$. What is known about the group of units of $A$? It's not even clear to me that ...
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Is there a computable ordinal encoding the proof strength of ZF? Is it knowable?

In comments on Quora (see, for example, here, here, here), Ron Maimon has repeatedly expressed the strong opinion that Hilbert's program was not killed by Gödel's results in the way typically ...
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Symplectic block-diagonalization of a complex symmetric matrix

This is a follow-up question to the one asked here: Given a complex symmetric $2n\times2n$-matrix $A$, i.e., $A\in \mathbb{C}^{2n\times2n}$ with $A = A^T$. Is it possible, to block-diagonalize $A$ ...
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Coercivity for functional and complete orthonormal system

Consider with $\rho \in W^{1,2}([0,\pi])$ the following functional $$J(\rho)=\frac{1}{2}\int_{0}^{\pi}{\rho^2\,dx}$$ I know that in the $L^{2}([0,\pi])$ the coercivity condition is satisfied, but i'm ...
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A nilpotent quotient of free groups

Let $F$ denote the free group on $n$ generators $g_1,\ldots, g_n$. Consider its quotient $Q$ by the universal relation $[x,[x,y]]$ (a "Serre relation" familiar from Lie theory). This group is ...
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Results about the existence of solutions in groups

Let $G$ be a group. Consider an arbitrary equation given by $w(\vec{g})=e$, where $w: G^n \to G$ takes an $n$-tuple $(g_1,...,g_n)$ to some expression involving products of the $g_i$, their inverses ...
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Triangle groups [on hold]

I am having a hard time finding references(apart from wikipedia) for the geometric interpretation of triangle groups T_a,b,c = $<x,y | |x|=a, |y|=b, |xy|=c>$. How can these groups be visualized ...
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improving known bounds for Pierce expansions; cash prize

Here's a problem that I thought of back in 1978 or so, and only a little progress has been made on it since then. I still think about it from time to time, but probably not that many people have ...
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A Scalar Curvature Computation in Brendle Marques Neves' Min-Oo Conjecture paper

I'm reading a paper on the Min-Oo Conjecture (http://arxiv.org/abs/1004.3088), and I'm stuck on the following step in a proposition: Given a metric $g_0(t)$ on the upper hemisphere $\mathbb{S}^n_+$, ...
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Triangulations of special polyhedra

Let $A_1,A_2,A_3 \in \mathbb{N}^3$ be three points in space all lying in some plane $x+y+z=d$ where $d$ is a positive integer. If $\{e_1,e_2,e_3\}$ is the standard basis in $\mathbb{R}^3$, we can ...
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How can I compute the singular homotopy? [on hold]

Let D2 be a 2-dimensional disc and M be the Mobius strip. Note that the boundary of both D2 and of M is homeomorphic to the circle S1. (a) Consider the space X := (D2 ∪D2) /~ where ~ is the ...
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Are semigroups with finite-to-one right multiplication “moving”?

A semigroup $S$ is moving if $S$ is infinite, and for all finite $F\subseteq S$ and infinite $A\subseteq S$, there are $a_{1},\dots,a_{k}\in A$ such that, for all but finitely many $s\in S$,  ...

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