Timeline for Is it possible to approximate a general cubic form by one which factorises?
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| Jun 7, 2011 at 15:36 | vote | accept | Oliver | ||
| May 12, 2011 at 0:01 | answer | added | Qiaochu Yuan | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 11, 2011 at 18:24 | answer | added | Charles Matthews | timeline score: 0 | |
| May 11, 2011 at 17:56 | comment | added | mdeland | Cubics which factor are contained in a Zariski-closed subset inside the space of all cubics. So the general cubic will be "far away" from those that factor. For example if you stay on the hyperplane L(x) = 0, then you would expect C_0(x) to get very large as x goes to infinity but C_1(x) will always be 0. | |
| May 11, 2011 at 17:44 | comment | added | Daniel Litt | I think there's a quantifier problem--do you mean, given $C_0$, there exists $C_1$ and $\delta>0$ such that for all $x$...? | |
| May 11, 2011 at 16:44 | history | asked | Oliver | CC BY-SA 3.0 |