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Liftability in positive characteristic
What clsses of algebraic varieties over field of positive characteristic can be lift to $W_2(k)$?
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DeRham cohomology
The Poincare lemma fails in positive characteristic, since pth powers vanish under differention. My question is : is there still some kind of resolution of the local system k by considering some ...
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Determinant of special generalized Vandermonde matrix
Good evening!
I have a generalized Vandermonde matrix of special form:
$\left( \begin{array}{ccccc} a_{0,0} & a_{0,1} \cdot x_0 & a_{0,2} \cdot x_0^2 & \ldots & a_{0,m-1} \cdot x_0^{m-...
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Orthogonal Projections in Lie Theory
I have been studying a finite element method where rigid & elastic spatial motions are separated using an orthogonal projection (actually two: one for translations/stretches, the other for ...
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Difference of two optimization problem's optimal value
Let we have two following optimization problems:
\begin{align}
\text{(P1)}\quad \alpha_1 = \max_{x_1,\ldots,x_M} &\quad \sum_{m=1}^{M}\log(1+f_m(x_1,\ldots,x_M))\\
\textrm{s.t.} &\quad \...
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Intersection between a line and an n-dimensional parallelotope
Suppose that I have a line in an $n$-dimensional space described by
$$ X=A+Bk, \quad \quad X,A,B \in \mathbb{R}^n, k \in \mathbb{R} $$
here $A$ is known and I want to find all the possible vectors $B$ ...
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Nonnegative Matrix
Let $A=E+\sqrt{-1}B$, where $E=diag\{0,1,\cdots,1\}$, $B$ is a real symmetric matrix. Let $A^*$ denote the adjoint matrix of $A$, i.e. $AA^*=\det A\cdot I$. I hope the real part of adjoint matrix ${\...
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(probably simple) optimization question
Suppose you have a concave function defined over a non-polyhedral convex cone and you are interested in the infimum. What would be standard approaches to tackle the question? (The cone is actually PSD ...
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Variance of the logarithm of the mixed Rademacher and complex Gaussian distribution
Consider the scenario where $X$ is a Rademacher random variable taking values $\{−1,+1\}$ with equal probability, and $Z$ is a complex Gaussian random variable with a mean of $0$ and a variance of $\...
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Bound for an expectation of random matrix with quantized random variable
Let random matrix $\mathbf{X} \in \mathbb{C^{\mathrm{m} \times \mathrm{n}}}$ and random vector $\mathbf{y} \in \mathbb{C^{\mathrm{m} \times 1}}$ are unknown distributed, but their covariance and ...
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How to calculate determinants of such types?
Consider next determinant that we want to expand around $h=1$
\begin{eqnarray}
Z_q \ = \ h^{N N_f} \ \ \left ( \prod_{n=1}^{N} \ \sum_{l_n=0}^{N_f -q} \ h^{2l_n+q} \ \binom{N_f}{l_n} \right ) \ \...
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A follow-up question in a proof in a paper on complete multipartite graphs
A follow-up question from the following article/paper:
"Proof of a conjecture on distance energy change of complete multipartite graph due to edge deletion"
by Shaowei Sun and Kinkar Chandra ...
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Linear operator over a simplex space in a multinomial distribution parameter estimation problem
This is actually a variant of a well-known problem of how the parameters of a multinomial distribution can be estimated by maximum likelihood, and this arises from a final year project I undertook ...
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How many hyper-rectangle-like objects are intersecting a hyperplane?
Let $A\in \mathbb R^{n\times n},\ b\in \mathbb R^n$ such that $\forall x\in \{-1,1\}^n : Ax\ne b$.
Let us denote: $S=\{x\in\mathbb R^n|Ax=b\}$ ('S' for solution set).
Is $\ \#\Big\{H\in\big\{ \{-1\},...
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Orthogonal polynomials of the second kind
Let $L: \mathbb{R}[x] \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ be a positive definite linear functional and let that $\{s_n\}$ be a positive semi-definite sequence such that $L(x^n)= s_n, n\ge 0.$ Given a positive ...
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Orthogonal decomposition of conditional expectations
Suppose I have a random variable $x$ and a set of conditional distributions on $x$. Here is an example where the conditionals are nested:
$$q_1 := E(x|y_1), \quad q_2 := E(x|y_1,y_2),\quad q_3 := E(x|...
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spectrum of a special class of tridiagonal matrices
Consider a real and symmetric tridiagonal matrix with zero diagonals and where subdiagonals and superdiagonals are equal to 1 except the (1,2)-th component being equal to $a$, i.e.,
$$\begin{bmatrix}...
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Collecting terms of a linear expression with nested sums and combinatorics in coefficients
I need to collect the $\Pr(\cdot)$ terms of the following expression:
$\sum_{m=3}^{n}\frac{g_{m}\left( \cdot \right) }{\left( \sqrt{\theta \left(
1-\theta \right) }\right) ^{m}}\left[ \sum_{j=2}^{m-1}...
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Upper bound on iterations count for power iteration algorithm
I'm stuck trying to get upper bound on iterations count for power iteration algroithm for finding first eigenvalue of adjacency matrix $A$ given tolerance value. I've tried to figure something out ...
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On the permanent dominance conjecture for symmetric group
The Lieb's permanent dominance conjecture states that the expression $$\frac{d_{\chi}^HA}{\chi(e)}\le per(A)$$ holds for all positive semidefinite matrices $A$, where $d_{\chi}^HA=\sum_\limits{\sigma\...
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Property of positive semi-definite
Let $A$ is a positive semi-definite matrix like this:
$$ A = \begin{bmatrix}
1 & \alpha_{1,2} & \alpha_{1,3} & \alpha_{1,4}\\
\alpha_{1,2} & 1 & \alpha_{2,3} & \alpha_{2,4}\\
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Rank of a random matrix
Let $x$ a random Gaussian vector of size $n$ with i.i.d coefficients $N(0,1)$. Let $J$ a random matrix with i.i.d coefficients $N(0,\sigma^2/n)$ where $\sigma \in [0,1]$. For any integer T>n, define:
$...
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A presentation for the group $GL(n,\mathbb{Z}_p)$
Let $n\ge 2$. Let $p$ be a prime and $\mathbb{Z}_p$ denote the finite field with $p$ elements.
I want to know about the presentation for the group $GL(n,\mathbb{Z}_p)$ consisting of its generators and ...
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