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Borsuk pairs of Banach spaces
Given $X$, $Y$ two real Banach spaces, let's say that $(X,\ Y)$
is a Borsuk pair if for any continuous mapping $T$ : {$x$ $\in$
$X$ ; $||x||\leq1$} $\rightarrow$ $Y$ s.t. $T$ is odd on {$x$
$\in$ $X$ ;...
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Saito-Wright definition of Rickart C*-algebras
A C*-algebra is Rickart if for each $x\in A$ there is a projection $p\in A$ so that
$R(x)=pA$.
Here the right-annihilator $R(S)$ of $S\subset A$ is defined
as $$R(S)=\{a\in A\mid xa=0\, \forall x\...
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What is the "right" universal property of the completion of a metric space?
I'm a little embarrassed to ask this one, but it could help for a class I'm teaching, so here goes:
Let $X$ be a metric space. We all know that $X$ admits a completion, which is a complete metric ...
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Properties of the class of topological spaces possessing a CW-structure
Let ${\mathcal C}$ be the class of topological spaces which carry a CW-structure (note that I do not want to fix some particular CW-structure).
Is it true that for a covering map $E\stackrel{f}{\to} ...
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What do you call the product of a circle and an annulus?
What would you call the product of an annulus and $S^1$ (a 'thickened' torus like 3-manifold)?
More generally, is there an archive or list online of names assigned to various (non-standard) manifolds ...
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When is a Banach space a Hilbert space?
Let $\mathcal{X}$ be a real or complex Banach space.
It is a well known fact that $\mathcal{X}$ is a Hilbert space (i.e. the norm comes from an inner product) if the parallelogram identity holds.
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nonhausdorff dimension
if $X$ is a topological space, a first step in making $X$ hausdorff is taking the quotient $H(X)=X/\sim$, where $\sim$ is the equivalence relation generated by: if $x,y$ cannot be seperated by ...
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How can I embed an N-points metric space to a hypercube with low distortion?
I have a N-point metric space defined by the pairwise distance matrix. I want to encode these N points with binary strings, i.e. each point will be mapped to a vertex in a hypercube. The lengths of ...
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Space whose product with paracompact space is paracompact
Is there a nice characterization of topological spaces with the property that the product with any paracompact space is paracompact?
All compact spaces have this property (this can be shown from the ...
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Local supporting points of Lipschitz functions
Let X be a separable reflexive Banach space and f:X\to\mathbb{R} be a
Lipschitz function. Say that a point x in X is a local supporting point
of f if there exist x^* in X^* and an open neighborhood U ...
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Which topological spaces admit a nonstandard metric?
My question is about the concept of nonstandard metric space that would arise from a use of the nonstandard reals R* in place of the usual R-valued metric.
That is, let us define that a topological ...
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Are all Hawaiian Earrings homeomorphic?
The Hawaiian Earring is usually constructed as the union of circles of radius 1/n centered at (0,1/n): $\bigcup_1^\infty \left[ (0, \frac{1}{n}) + \frac{1}{n}S^1 \right]$. However, nothing stops us ...
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Which Banach spaces have categorical duals?
I was looking carefully at all the definitions, trying to understand exactly what was going on in this question on categorical duals in Banach spaces. It seems that in the category of Banach spaces ...
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Compact Convex sets and Extreme Points
There are examples that show the set of extreme points of a compact convex subset of a locally convex topological vector space need not be closed when the real dimension of the space is at least 3. ...
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Categorical duals in Banach spaces
Near the bottom of the nlab page for Banach space I see "To be described: duals (p+q=pq)".
Are $(\mathbb{R}^n)_p$ and $(\mathbb{R}^n)_q$ dual objects in the closed symmetric monoidal category of ...
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Morse theory and Euler characteristics
Suppose we have a space M with a real-valued, differentiable function F on M. Under what conditions on F will the Euler characteristic of M be expressed as a (signed) sum of Euler characteristics of ...
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Relating Euler characteristic, intersection product, Morse theory (plus SU(2) and 3-manifolds)
Suppose we have a (closed, oriented) 3-manifold M with a Heegard surface F of genus g. Let F* denote F with a puncture. Then the space H of representations of pi_1(F*) on SU(2) is just SU(2)^2g, and ...
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Universality of zeta- and L-functions
Voronin´s Universality Theorem (for the Riemann zeta-Function) according to Wikipedia: Let $U$ be a compact subset of the "critical half-strip" $\{s\in\mathbb{C}:\frac{1}{2}<Re(s)<1\}$ with ...
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Topological "Interpolation" ?
Let E be a normed space, and let $T$:E * $\rightarrow$ E * be
a nonlinear operator.
Suppose that :
1) $T$ is continuous from (E *, ||.||) to itself (i.e., it is norm-continuous).
and
2) $T$ is ...
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p-adic noninvariance of dimension
Let $p$ be a prime number. Let $n,m \geq 1$ be such that the topological spaces $\mathbb{Q}_p^n$ and $\mathbb{Q}_p^m$ are homeomorphic. Can we conclude $n=m$?
For $\mathbb{Z}_p$ it's false: In fact, ...
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Important results that use infinite-dimensional manifolds?
Are Banach manifolds (or other types of infinite-dimensional manifolds) just curiosities, or have they been utilized to prove some interesting/important results? Where do they turn up? Important ...
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What are some interesting sequences of functions for thinking about types of convergence?
I'm thinking about the basic types of convergence for sequences of functions: convergence in measure, almost uniform convergence, convergence in Lp and point wise almost everywhere convergence. I'm ...
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When does local invertibility imply invertibility?
Generally, local invertibility does not imply invertibility. However, for differentiable functions from $\mathbb{R}$ to $\mathbb{R}$ then surjectivity and local invertibility do imply invertibility.
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What are interesting families of subsets of a given set?
Motivation
The usual starting point of both Topology and Measure Theory is the definition of a family of subsets of a set $S$.
Indeed, one defines a topology on $S$ to be a family of subsets ...
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What is the "continuity" in "absolute continuity", in general?
The wikipedia article on absolute continuity gives a delta-epsilon definition for a measure $\mu$ defined on the Borel $\sigma$-algebra on the real line, with respect to the Lebesgue measure $\lambda$:...
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How to transform a plane into a sphere? [SOLVED] [closed]
Given a 2-dimensional array of MxN heights, how to transform it to a sphere? Every element of this array is just a 3D point (x,y,z) where z represents some height. One has to transform this array into ...
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Which are the rigid suborders of the real line?
Which are the rigid suborders of the real line?
If A is any set of reals, then it can be viewed as an order structure itself under the induced order (A,<). The question is, when is this structure ...
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Can topologies induce a metric? (revised)
This is a revised version of a question I already posted, but which patently was ill posed. Please give me another try.
For comparison's sake, the axioms of a metric:
Axiom A1: $(\forall x)\ d(x,x) =...
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Advantages of a back-propagation neural network over other function approximation methods
Hello.
Let's say I have a set of input vectors $I = \{\mathbf{x_1}, \dots, \mathbf{x_k}\} \subset \mathcal{R}^m$ and a set of output vectors $O = \{\mathbf{y_1}, \dots, \mathbf{y_k}\} \subset \...
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Help me with this proof: Drop a printed map of the land on the land and there must be some common point.
Hi, I have a minor in math and this is not a homework problem - my prof mentioned it 5 years ago and I could not even begin to tackle it until I took a good intro to linear algebra (after work). ...
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Boundedness of nonlinear continuous functionals
Let $K$ be the closed unit ball of $C[0,1]$, and let $f$ in $C(K,\mathbb{\, R})$.
Is it true that there exists an infinite dimensional reflexive subspace
$E$ of $C[0,1]$ s.t. $f(K\cap E)$ is bounded ?
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How far is Lindelöf from compactness?
A while ago I heard of a nice characterization of compactness but I have never seen a written source of it, so I'm starting to doubt it. I'm looking for a reference, or counterexample, for the ...
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Subspaces of $L^{2}$
[In what follows $0^{0}$= 1 by convention.]
Is there some closed infinite dimensional linear subspace $F$ of $L^{2}(0,1)$
such that $\left\lvert f\right\rvert^{\left\lvert f\right\rvert}$ belongs to $...
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Generalizations of "standard" calculus
We have the usual analogy between infinitesimal calculus (integrals and derivatives) and finite calculus (sums and forward differences), and also the generalization of infinitesimal calculus to ...
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Bibliography for topologies defined by a family of seminorms
Hello
I am trying to learn more about Fréchet spaces (in order to study the theory of distributions) and was wondering what people thought was the best resource.
Thank you very much.
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Is Top_4 (normal spaces) a reflective subcategory of Top_3 (regular spaces)?
I’m studying some category theory by reading Mac Lane linearly and solving exercises.
In question 5.9.4 of the second edition, the reader is asked to construct left adjoints for each of the inclusion ...
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Why do finite homotopy groups imply finite homology groups?
Why does a space with finite homotopy groups [for every n] have finite homology groups? How can I proof this [not only for connected spaces with trivial fundamental group]? The converse is false. $\...
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The proper name for a kind of ordered space [closed]
I'm trying to find the correct term for a specific kind of totally ordered space:
Let $S$ be a totally ordered space with strict total order $<$.
Property: For any two $s_{1}$ and $s_{2}$ in $S$ ...
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Can topologies induce a metric?
Let {X,T} be a topology, T the set of open subsets of X.
Definition: Three points x, y, z of X are in relation N (Nxyz, read "x is nearer to y than to z") iff
there is a basis B of T and b in B ...
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Definable collections of non measurable sets of reals
Is there a definable (in Zermelo Fraenkel set theory with choice) collection of non measurable sets of reals of size continuum? More verbosely: Is there a class A = {x: \phi(x)} such that ZFC proves "...
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What is the max number of points in R^3, interconnected by generic curves?
The largest complete graph that embeds in 2 dimensions is $K_4$, while the largest complete graph that embeds in 3 dimensions is $K_{\infty}$, right? However, I don't know any constructive proof of it....
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What is an explicit example of a sequence converging to two different points? [closed]
In principle a sequence in a non-Hausdorff space can converge to two points simultaneously.
Can anyone give me an explicit example of the above?
Or tell me any method of generating such kinds of ...
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Countable atomless boolean algebra covered by a larger boolean algebra
Suppose $Q$ is an atomless countable boolean algebra, and $B$ is an arbitrary atomless boolean algebra. $Q$ is unique modulo isomorphisms. There is a subalgebra in $B$ that is isomorphic to $Q$. There ...
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Request for reference: Banach-type spaces as algebraic theories.
Sparked by Yemon Choi's answer to Is the category of Banach spaces with contractions an algebraic theory? I've just spent a merry time reading and doing a bit of reference chasing. Imagine my delight ...
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What's the nearest algebraic theory to inner product spaces?
Following the references to the accepted answer to Is the category of Banach spaces with contractions an algebraic theory? one discovers that there is an algebraic theory (infinitary) which is closely ...
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What is the origin of the term "spectrum" in mathematics?
The use of the term "spectrum" to denote the prime ideals of a ring originates from the case that the ring is, say, $\mathbb{C}[T]$ where $T$ is a linear operator on a finite-dimensional vector space; ...
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Quotient of a Hausdorff topological group by a closed subgroup
Sorry if this question is below the level of this site: I've read that the quotient of a Hausdorff topological group by a closed subgroup is again Hausdorff. I've thought about it but can't seem to ...
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Approximating with translated Gaussians and low-frequency trig functions
Defining the translated Gaussians by $f_t(x)=\exp(-(x-t)^2)$ for $t,x\in\Bbb{R}$, we showed that the linear span of $\{f_t \mid 0 \le t < \epsilon\}$ is dense in $L^2(\Bbb{R})$, for any $\epsilon&...
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The "ultimate" indefinite inner product space
This can be considered as a relative of Splitting a space into positive and negative parts.
Is there a real (non-trivial) vector space $V$, endowed with a nondegenerate symmetric bilinear pairing $\...
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Are the C(S^n, S^n)'s homeomorphic ?
Let m, n > 1. Is it true that C(S^m, S^m), and C(S^n, S^n) are homeomorphic ?
[both endowed with the sup metric (or equivalently the compact-open topology)]
Generally, C(S^n, S^n), with n >= 1, is a ...
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