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Which is the number of independent components of a flat spin connection in a 4 dimension Weitzenböck spacetime?
A spin connection $A_{ab\mu}=-A_{ba\mu}$ has 24 components. The number of independent components for a flat spin connection can be counted by subtracting the constrains set by the condition of null ...
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Need help maximizing distances to nearest neighbor in a cylinder
I have a cylinder and I want to maximize the number of points in the cylinder such that the distances to the nearest neighbors are maximally spaced. How do I find out how many points I can have so ...
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Number of connected components of complement to a reducible real algebraic hypersurface.[EDITED]
Let $X_1,\ldots X_k$ be irreducible(may be singular) affine real algebraic hypersurfaces in $R^n$ with $x_1,\ldots, x_k$ connected components, respectively.
Let $G_1,\ldots, G_l$ be their ...
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Geometry of the multilagrangian Grassmannian
Let's introduce the following variety $MG(3,6)$, which is a "multisymplectic" analog of a Lagrangian Grassmannian $LG(3,6)$.
Consider a 3-form $\omega = dx1 \wedge dx2 \wedge dx^3 - dx4 \wedge dx5 \...