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Jun
14
comment Sperner’s lemma and Tucker’s lemma
@domotorp: Thanks for pointing out this article! It was very relevant and interesting.
Jun
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comment Normality of Chaitin’s constant
Just what I needed to know! Thanks, Doug.
May
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comment Normality of Chaitin’s constant
@Francois: I made it a community wiki because the request for a "guiding intuition" is a vague one, and when I've posted such questions in the past, people have complained "This should be a community wiki." But if I'm misunderstanding what community wiki status is for, please enlighten me!
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asked Normality of Chaitin’s constant
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revised In what rigorous sense are Sperner’s Lemma and the Brouwer Fixed Point Theorem equivalent?
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comment Sperner’s lemma and Tucker’s lemma
@Paul Taylor: See willamette.edu/~knyman/papers/Fan_Sperner.pdf for clear statements of Sperner's lemma and Tucker's lemma.
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revised In what rigorous sense are Sperner’s Lemma and the Brouwer Fixed Point Theorem equivalent?
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asked In what rigorous sense are Sperner’s Lemma and the Brouwer Fixed Point Theorem equivalent?
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Apr
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answered How exactly does Schützenberger promotion relate to Striker-Williams promotion?
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Apr
12
comment Do all subtraction-free identities tropicalize?
@quid: I've changed tropical-mathematics to tropical-arithmetic. Thanks for pointing out the existence of the tropical-arithmetic tag.
Apr
12
revised Do all subtraction-free identities tropicalize?
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10
comment Do all subtraction-free identities tropicalize?
Colin and Will's answers are both convincing; thanks! One thing more I'd appreciate is a literature reference that I can cite if I publish something that makes use of this transfer principle. Given how straightforward the proof is (at least in hindsight), it's likely that some version of this result appears in some existing book or article.
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revised Do all subtraction-free identities tropicalize?
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asked Do all subtraction-free identities tropicalize?
Mar
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revised Cyclically symmetric functions
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comment Cyclically symmetric functions
This reference is extremely well-written, and it covers lots if examples, but the cyclic action on the variables doesn't appear to be one of them (though Theorem 1.17 comes close; it's good to know that for the dihedral action, and all other finite Coxeter group actions, things work out about as nicely as one could hope).
Mar
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asked Cyclically symmetric functions
Mar
14
answered constant averages along orbits
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comment Using a quadratic kernel instead of a linear kernel in the Laplace transform
@Liviu: Thanks, but I am confused. What is $s$? Also, does $L_{loc}^1$ mean locally integrable in the sense of being integrable over every finite interval, or is some sort of uniformity required?
Mar
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asked Using a quadratic kernel instead of a linear kernel in the Laplace transform
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Feb
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comment Galois connections
@Jerome: Oh no -- a mistake in the very first paragraph of my article! Ah well; thanks for catching this error. I will fix it once I get LaTeX properly installed on my new Mac and can create pdfs again.
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asked Bijective proof of Ramanujan’s congruence
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