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Gerhard Frey, "Links between stable elliptic curves and certain diophantine equations"

I am searching for the article by Gerhard Frey, which has indicated a connection between Fermat's Last Theorem and the Taniyama-Shimura Conjecture. The reference is give as Gerhard Frey, Links ...
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Looking for a paper on transfinite diameter by David Cantor

I have been reading about transfinite diameter and its applications to number theory and have been hunting for the following paper for quite a while: Cantor D.: On an extension of the definition of ...
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Almgren's mimeographed lectures notes on varifolds

I am trying to get some insights for the combinatorial argument of Pitts (in his PhD thesis 'Existence and regularity of minimal surfaces in Riemannian manifolds', Princeton University Press, 1981) to ...
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On a series of lectures of Deligne on crystalline cohomology in characteristic $0$

In the introduction of Berthelot's book on crystalline cohomology [Ber74], one finds, on page 11, the following passage: i) des travaux de P. Deligne ([14], non publiés) prouvant en particulier le ...
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Where can I find the paper by Tappert and Hardin on split-step Fourier transform method?

The split-step method is a numerical method that can be used to solve a nonlinear PDE (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split-step_method). Even Wikipedia does not refer to the original authors (F.D. ...
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Kato's explicit reciprocity law paper

Does anyone have a copy of Kato's article Generalized explicit reciprocity laws in Advanced Studies in Contemp. Math which is used heavily in his paper constructing his eponymous Euler system? I used ...
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When $X$ is homeomorphic to $\mathscr{F}[X]$?

While I was talking to some colleagues, one of them said that there exists a topological space $X$ such that $X$ is uncountable, non-discrete and homeomorphic to $\mathscr{F}[X]$ (the Pixley-Roy ...
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I am looking for a paper by Zalgaller

I cannot find this paper online. Does anyone have a pdf file of it? Zalgaller, V. A. The k-dimensional directions that are singular for a convex body F in Rn. (Russian) Zap. Naučn. Sem. Leningrad. ...
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Reference request for a preprint by Effros-Ruan

I am not sure this question is appropriate for this site, but here goes. If not, please let me know and I will delete the question. In my literature search, I came across the following reference: &...
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How to locate the paper that established Robinson Arithmetic?

If I'm not mistaken, it was in his seminal paper “An Essentially Undecidable Axiom System”, published in Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians (1950), 1952:729–730, where R.M. ...
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B. W. Jordan's thesis on arithmetic of Shimura curves

I'm looking for Bruce W. Jordan's thesis: On the diophantine arithmetic of Shimura curves. Thesis, Harvard University, 1981. I could not find the pdf at the following site. https://www.math.harvard....
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Looking for an electronic copy of Huber's Bewertungsspektrum und rigide Geometrie

Lately I've been trying (and have failed) to find an electronic copy of Huber's Bewertungsspektrum und rigide Geometrie, which (from what I understand) is the original reference developing the basics ...
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Reference for certain categorical limits

I would like to know if there is a special name for the following concept, papers that feature something similar or a general reference. Let $\mathcal{C}$ be a category and $\mathcal{D}$ a subcategory ...
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EDM2 (Encyclopedic Dictionary of Mathematics from Japan Math. Soc.) and updates

The Japan Mathematical Society has published their Encyclopedic Dictionary of Mathematics 2nd edition (EDM2) some time ago. I was wondering if there were a digital version online or any updated ...
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Positive harmonic functions on nilpotent groups & Random walk on groups with a finite number of generators

I want to read the following papers in the English version which I could not find anywhere (the only papers I can get are the Russian versions). Kindly help me out. Gregory A. Margulis, Positive ...
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Looking for a paper on axiomatic orthogonality in a vector space

I am looking for a paper "Linear spaces with disjoint elements and their conversion into vector lattices" by A. I. Veksler. It was published in 1967 in Research Notes of Leningrad State ...
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Copy of paper by M. Naimi on squarefree friable integers

I am trying to get a hold on a copy of a 1988 paper by M. Naimi. It appears in MR as MR0950949 and in zbMATH as Zbl 0669.10066. Its title is "Les entiers sans facteurs carré $\le x$ dont leurs ...
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Jon Beck's untitled manuscript containing the "tripleability theorem" (i.e. the monadicity theorem)

Many papers refer to an untitled manuscript of Jon Beck (Cornell, 1966) for the origin of the monadicity theorem (originally called a "tripleability theorem"). An early proof is in Manes's ...
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Minimize smooth function $(x,y) \to f(x,y)$ subject to $x \perp y$

Let $V$ be a finite-dimensional real vector space (e.g space of $m \times n$ real matrices equiped with Hilbert-Schmidt inner product $(A,B) \to \mathrm{tr}(AB^\top)$, and let $f:V^2 \to \mathbb R$, $(...
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Boardman's thesis or mimeographed notes

I would like to know if there is some online source where Boardman's 1964 thesis is available or his Warwick mimeographed notes. This is because by what I've heard Boardman's construction has a more ...
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English translation of Emmy Noether's Hyperkomplexe Grössen und Darstellungstheorie

I'm wondering if anybody knows where one can find an English translation of Emmy Noether's classical paper E. NOETHER, Hyperkomplexe Grössen und Darstellungstheorie, Math. Zeit. 30(1929), 641–692 ?...
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Preprint by Wall on Sjogren's theorem

In their account http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0022-4049(87)90048-X of Sjogren's theorem, Cliff and Hartley refer to two articles: [9] B. Hartley, A note on a lemma of Sjogren relating to. dimension ...
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Shulman's Thesis on Characteristic Classes

I am trying to find a copy of H. Shulman's 1972 Berkeley thesis 'On Characteristic Classes'. I've seen it referenced in Bott's 'On the de Rham theory of Certain Classifying Spaces' but I can't seem to ...
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Reference request for a paper of Berard-Bergery

I was wondering if anyone could point me to a pdf copy of the following paper by Lionel Berard-Bergery: "Scalar curvature and isometry group", in Spectra of Riemannian Manifolds, Kaigai ...
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Where can I find Drinfeld's original papers on quantum groups?

Let $\mathfrak{g}$ be a semisimple Lie algebra. Let $U_h(\mathfrak{g})$ be the Drinfeld-Jimbo quantum group, i.e. the $\mathbb{C}[[h]]$-algebra topologically generated by $X_i,Y_i,H_i$ where $1\leq i\...
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Reference request for Kato's paper: A generalization of local class field theory by using K -groups

I would like to ask for the paper of Kato: A generalization of local class field theory by using K -groups I, J. Fac. Sci. Univ. Tokyo Sec. IA 26 No.2, 1979, 303–376. I could not find it. Could anyone ...
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Looking for the multiplicity-free paper by N.Inglis

I'm looking for the paper "Multiplicity-free permutation characters, distance-transitive graphs and classical groups, PhD Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1986" by Nicholas Francis John Inglis. The ...
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Literature Request: Berger Spheres and their Construction

In a previous question by me I asked about Berger spheres and their Lorentzian analogue, squashed $AdS_3$ along Hopf fibres. It was well answered (by https://mathoverflow.net/users/13268/ben-mckay) ...
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Kaczorowski's Paper on Distribution of Primes

I am looking for a digital copy of the following paper by Jerzy Kaczorowski: ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF PRIMES (mod4) https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/anly.1995.15.issue-2/anly.1995.15.2.159/anly.1995.15....
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Paper "Tetrahedron rolled onto a plane"

I am looking for the article Charles W. Trigg, "Tetrahedron rolled onto a plane", J. Recreational Mathematics, 3(2):82–87, 1970. It is from @Joseph O'Rourke comment in the previous post "Die-rolling ...
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Disciplining dunce hats

I'm wondering if anyone has a copy of a preprint by Charles Giffen from 1977, with the enjoyable title, Disciplining dunce hats in 4-manifolds. I've seen it referred to in various places, including ...
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Where can I find a copy of this paper of Chowla and Vijayaraghavan?

Does anyone know where I can find a copy of Chowla and Vijayaraghavan's paper, ''On the largest prime divisors of numbers''? The relevant literature say it was published in the Journal of the Indian ...
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Famous but unavailable paper of Jan Boman

The following paper is well known, but hard to find: J. Boman, $L^p$-estimates for very strongly elliptic systems, Report 29, Department of Mathematics, University of Stockholm, 1982. In this paper ...
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Beilinson and Deligne's Motivic Polylogarithm and Zagier Conjecture

Where can I find the preprint Motivic Polylogarithm and Zagier Conjecture by Beilinson and Deligne? I see it referenced in a lot of papers but no one seems to host a copy.
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Translation of Fakeev's Optimal Stopping Rules for Stochastic Processes with Continuous Parameter

I am looking for a translation of Fakeev's "Optimal Stopping Rules for Stochastic Processes with Continuous Parameter" from 1970. I can only find it in Russian. Does anyone know where to find this?
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Morava $E$-theory source of reading

Recently I came across a paper which I really need to read through and which uses language of Morava $E$-theory. Since I'm not comfortable with this cohomology theory, I've been looking for quite a ...
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Reference request: Dickman, On the frequency of numbers containing prime factors

I've been trying without success to find the paper Dickman, Karl, "On the frequency of numbers containing prime factors of a certain relative magnitude." Ark Mal., Astronomi och Physik, 22A (10), ...
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Looking for Coleman's paper "The Gross-Koblitz formula"

I am looking for a copy of the following paper by Robert Coleman: The Gross-Koblitz formula. Galois representations and arithmetic algebraic geometry (Kyoto, 1985/Tokyo, 1986), 21–52, Adv. Stud. ...