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Yemon Choi

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Name Yemon Choi
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Assistant Professor at the University of Saskatchewan. Firm believer that "they also serve who only stand and wait".

Mainly working these days on abstract harmonic analysis, but always liable to fall off the wagon and into the cohomology of Banach algebras. Other interests currently include: homological perspectives on functional analysis; probabilistic methods; convolution operators arising from group actions.

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comment Taylor Series and Fourier Series
Hmm, I am not sure (yet) that this needs to be rapidly shunted over to MSE. There is something lurking in the background about representation of differential operators on certain function spaces with respect to certain bases... although perhaps I am reading more into the question than the OP intended
14h
comment Simultaneous Linear System
Why? See mathoverflow.net/howtoask
1d
revised Banach Algebra Counterexample
added some more background on BAs that embed into B(H)
1d
comment Banach Algebra Counterexample
@jpp: over at math.stackexchange.com, please post a link back to this question here.
1d
revised Banach Algebra Counterexample
added tag, added link to MSE
1d
accepted Banach Algebra Counterexample
1d
comment Banach Algebra Counterexample
@Owen: it is not obvious that you can't embed the group algebra into B(H) via some homomorphism that isn't a star-map. (Something like the failure of von Neumann's inequality works in the case of A(T), the example Cedric gave; this is explained in the book of Diestel, Jarchow and Tonge)
1d
answered Banach Algebra Counterexample
2d
comment vector balancing problem
I'm not so sure he did find out from here, but I guess that he can always drop by to confirm or refute.
2d
comment Is there existing terminology for this technical condition on semilattices?
You get a mention in the references here: arxiv.org/abs/1203.6691
2d
comment Is there existing terminology for this technical condition on semilattices?
@NN has been credited in the list of references for the paper where I needed this condition: arxiv.org/abs/1203.6691
2d
comment Intersection of curves
You could have just edited your earlier question mathoverflow.net/questions/133374/…
2d
answered Fourier series representing a continuous function?
2d
comment Status of Beal, Granville, Tijdeman-Zagier Conjecture
I just reverted Halfdan Faber's change of the title. I think anyone looking for the conjecture with only Beal's name attached to it will not be confused by finding the extra names. Whereas omitting those names is tacitly taking Beal's side of the story, and I am not sure we should do that.
2d
comment To be or not to be…?
In your case, I would definitely counsel suffering the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune
2d
revised If $\chi\in\operatorname{Irr}(G)$, $N\unlhd G$, and $\langle\chi_{N},1_{N}\rangle\ne 0$, then $N\subset \operatorname{Ker}(\chi)$.
corrected tags, also bumped
Jun
17
comment Does this sequence of H\"older functions have a limit?
If this isn't homework, why do you need the solution?
Jun
17
comment If $\chi\in\operatorname{Irr}(G)$, $N\unlhd G$, and $\langle\chi_{N},1_{N}\rangle\ne 0$, then $N\subset \operatorname{Ker}(\chi)$.
MSE version: math.stackexchange.com/questions/422543/…
Jun
17
comment If $\chi\in\operatorname{Irr}(G)$, $N\unlhd G$, and $\langle\chi_{N},1_{N}\rangle\ne 0$, then $N\subset \operatorname{Ker}(\chi)$.
Voting to close (due to stubby fingers, selectee "blatantly offensive" when I meant "no longer relevant")
Jun
17
comment Finding ALL Minimal generators of a finite Group.
Why "graph-theory"?
Jun
17
comment If $\chi\in\operatorname{Irr}(G)$, $N\unlhd G$, and $\langle\chi_{N},1_{N}\rangle\ne 0$, then $N\subset \operatorname{Ker}(\chi)$.
Also, one of your tags is wrong.
Jun
17
comment If $\chi\in\operatorname{Irr}(G)$, $N\unlhd G$, and $\langle\chi_{N},1_{N}\rangle\ne 0$, then $N\subset \operatorname{Ker}(\chi)$.
Since MO isn't for people to get help with assignments, please state why you need the answer to this exercise from Isaacs's book, what you have tried, and where you are stuck. mathoverflow.net/howtoask
Jun
17
comment Is a free alternative to MathSciNet possible?
I don't think this is intended to have the same functionality that MathSciNet currently has. Often it isn't the reviews themselves that have proved useful in short-term searching, but being able to crawl up and down the citation tree.
Jun
17
comment How I can solve this functional equation
Alexandre, I am not sure this question should be encouraged, see meta.mathoverflow.net/discussion/1489
Jun
16
comment inner product of two gaussian random vectors?
Something which might simplify the calculations slightly (apologies if you already know this): by the rotational invariance of the standard multivariate Gaussian distribution, you can WLOG assume (since you only care about distribution) that Y=(R, 0, ... , 0) where R is the square root of a chi-squared on n degrees of freedom. Then the random variable you care about has the same distribution as RZ where Z is a standard Gaussian independent of R.
Jun
15
comment Mellin Transform
I took the liberty of fixing your formatting
Jun
15
revised How I can solve this functional equation
retagged, also to bump
Jun
15
comment How I can solve this functional equation
Also crossposted at MSE math.stackexchange.com/questions/419525/… under username "ZE1", formerly "Chaos"
Jun
15
revised Mellin Transform
retagged and fixed formatting
Jun
15
comment How I can solve this functional equation
I seem to remember this username was previously revealed as a fromt for the user RH/Zeraoulia, who was also fond of taking logs and trying to generalize the functional equation for zeta...
Jun
15
comment Nearly all math classes are lecture+problem set based; this seems particularly true at the graduate level. What are some concrete examples of techniques other than the “standard math class” used at the *Graduate* level?
[deleted earlier comment, which was based on a misreading of the OP]
Jun
14
comment Fourier series representing a continuous function?
(Probably even more is in Zygmund, but I find those books hard to carry, let alone read)
Jun
14
comment Fourier series representing a continuous function?
Reading through Katznelson's Intro to Harmonic Analysis will give lots of circumstantial evidence that the answer to your question is "not really, and probably not ever". Certainly it is not enough to look at the sequence $(|a_n|)$
Jun
14
comment Fourier series representing a continuous function?
Mike, with all due respect, this is a condition on functions, not on the Fourier coefficients themselves.
Jun
14
comment Every real-holomorphic Hamiltonian vector field on a Kähler manifold is Killing (and preserves curvature), yes?
The current title of this question brings certain bits of pop culture to mind for some people, yes? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death%27s_Head
Jun
14
comment Nearly all math classes are lecture+problem set based; this seems particularly true at the graduate level. What are some concrete examples of techniques other than the “standard math class” used at the *Graduate* level?
BTW, in which country/system are you giving this course? UK-US differences, and all that.
Jun
13
comment Range of the Fourier transform on L^1
Ah, yes that is simpler. Thanks, Bill
Jun
13
comment Why is TopGrp the category of topological groups and continous homomorphisms protomodular?
+1 for the "pedestrian version" (not that there's anything inherently wrong with the more abstract version, but it is good to see both for Brains of Little Bear like myself)
Jun
10
revised Quasinilpotent elements of group C-star algebras
fixed broken link
Jun
10
revised Usage of complex moments in complex plane
retagged
Jun
4
asked reference request for character theory of p-extraspecial groups
Jun
4
revised Generalized bilinear estimates
cleaned up LaTeX
Jun
2
awarded  Good Answer
Jun
2
revised A question about multiplier algebra of $C_0(G)\otimes C_b(G)$ for a locally compact group $G$
added OA tag
May
24
awarded  Nice Answer
May
11
revised Trace extention property
added BA tag
May
11
revised Character amenability
retagged
Apr
27
revised Is rigour just a ritual that most mathematicians wish to get rid of if they could?
Added some formatting tweaks to emphasise Milnor's rebuttal
Apr
23
accepted ultrapowers of Banach algebras
Apr
14
answered Corona Theorem in several variables