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answered What is the “fundamental theorem of invariant theory” ?
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comment A basis of the symmetric power consisting of powers
@Jesko: see my last edit.
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revised A basis of the symmetric power consisting of powers
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answered A basis of the symmetric power consisting of powers
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answered Generate a higher degree symmetric polynomial from an existing one
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comment Does Physics need non-analytic smooth functions?
Not sure this a good example. For some field theories constructed rigorously the function is still analytic even though the Taylor series has zero radius of convergence. The issue is the location of the point around which the Taylor expansion is made: in the middle of the domain of analyticity (ordinary summation which requires positive radius of convergence) versus on the boundary (Borel summation).
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answered An expression with an alternating trilinear form, written in terms of the determinant and a symmetric bilinear form
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comment Is rigour just a ritual that most mathematicians wish to get rid of if they could?
Of course. But I think the issue here rather is about published mathematical papers telling insights and intuitions yet without the gory details.
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comment How would I apply Wick’s theorem to the time-ordered product of three fields?
it's done on page 181 of Itzykson-Zuber 1980 edition.
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comment Trivial p-adic measures
@Steve: You need to give more details, otherwise it is not very respectful of people who would make the effort of answering your question. Is mu a real valued positive measure? if so, is the sigma algebra that of Borel sets etc.
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comment How to show a certain determinant is non-zero
This is very pretty.
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revised Partial linearization near a hyperbolic fixed point--Classical scattering
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comment Partial linearization near a hyperbolic fixed point--Classical scattering
@Adam: Thanks I will look at Sec 6.
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comment Partial linearization near a hyperbolic fixed point--Classical scattering
@Adam: I was looking at this paper yesterday but it is quite long and I have yet to see where the kind of theorem I am interested in is embedded.
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comment Partial linearization near a hyperbolic fixed point--Classical scattering
@Peter: I would not say "strikingly". My question is quite unsurprisingly related to this kind of questions simply because it explores extensions of normal form theory in the direction of weaker statements than e.g. full linearizations.
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asked Partial linearization near a hyperbolic fixed point--Classical scattering
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comment Invariants of a set of real unit vectors in 3d space, under SO(3)
@Piotr: degree bounds are not easy either. For binary form CIT there is an old one by Jordan see: www.math.lsa.umich.edu/~hderksen/preprints/bound.ps I don't know if it has been improved recently.
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comment Extremely messy proofs
@anon: indeed, there is a lot more in that article than what we now know as the Hilbert Basis Thm: the Hilbert polynomial, the Hilbert Syzygy Thm, the application to rings of invariants via averaging over SU(n) done by way of Cayley's omega operator...
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comment What is a Gaussian measure?
you can define being Gaussian by saying the moments are given by the Isserlis-Wick's theorem or the log-moment generating function is quadratic.
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comment Higher dimensional Bezout via Hilbert polynomials: a reference.
@aglearner: there are many places depending on the level of sophistication you want. There is the book by Gelfand, Kapranov and Zelevinsky. The book "Using Algebraic Geometry" by Cox Little and O'Shea. A quick intro is in the first edition of Modern Algebra by van der Waerden.
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comment Modern developments in finite-dimensional linear algebra
@Felipe and Timur: it seems we were thinking of different papers. Felipe's are about upper bounds on complexity while the ones I mentioned in my answer are about lower bounds. Sorry for being such a pessimist.
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comment Higher dimensional Bezout via Hilbert polynomials: a reference.
@aglearner: How about using multidimensional resultants? If you consider Res(F_1,...,F_n,U) where U is the linear form defining a variable hyperplane, Bezout is just the statement that the above expression is a completely factorized polynomial in U of degree d_1...d_n.
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comment Access to a preprint by D. N. Verma
very nice answer
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comment what’s the motivation of Weyl calculus ?
was it cut-off because of the number of characters? that's hilarious.
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revised real symmetric matrix has real eigenvalues - elementary proof
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answered Modern developments in finite-dimensional linear algebra
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comment Exceptional Schur-Weyl Duality
your second link goes to a paper of Deligne and Gross instead of that by Bruno Blind.
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comment Modern developments in finite-dimensional linear algebra
@Gerry: major enough to get published in JAMS.
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comment Homogenous polynomials as sum or differences of squares and symmetric polynomials
At the risk of stating the obvious I think Per is well able to correct these trivialities about degrees.
Feb
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comment Should one attack hard problems?
I think Frank is right. Not a good idea and not very fair to close this question.
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revised What mathematical treatment is there on the renormalization group flow in a space of Lagrangians?
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comment Homogenous polynomials as sum or differences of squares and symmetric polynomials
@Per: you mean the degree of Q is 1/2 that of P...So you are looking at a higher degree version of Gauss's decomposition of quadratic forms?
Feb
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comment What is quantum Brownian motion?
I think the review by Erdos has nothing to do with non-commutative probability. The goal is to show that in some limit the quantum particle in a disordered medium behaves according to classical Brownian motion, with emphasis on the word "classical".
Feb
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comment Derivation of Grassmann valued functional
maybe better the physics version of stack exchange. Your first formula with just \theta^{\ast}(x) is wrong. The second with also the exponential is correct.
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comment Generalized elementary symmetric functions
Schlafli with one "l" apparently.
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comment A nice generating set for the symmetric power of an algebra
it's even older than that, it is in the 1852 paper by Schlafli on resultants.
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comment A nice generating set for the symmetric power of an algebra
see my comment to MO 122287.
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comment Generalized elementary symmetric functions
I think these are just multisymmetric polynomials. See the page by Emmanuel Briand that I link to in my answer to MO109340. He has a paper on when the algebra of such polynomials is generated by elementary multisymmetric polynomials. The question MO122207, I think, can be answered using multisymmetric power sums. These are old results by Schlaffli and Junker.
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revised Invariant polynomials for a product of algebraic groups
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comment Known decomposition of $\bigwedge^k Sym^d \mathbb C^n$ in special cases?
I just saw an interesting unpublished paper by Agaoka on these plethysms. It can be found on Google Scholar by searching his name and "decomposition formulas of the plethysm".
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comment Known decomposition of $\bigwedge^k Sym^d \mathbb C^n$ in special cases?
the paper by Thrall is in American J. Math vol. 64 p. 371. but I just now saw that you referred to it in your recent work.