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What is the right notion of self-dual (two-dimensional) percolation in R^4?

For a lattice in $\mathbb{R}^2$, if we include each edge independently with probability $p$ (i.e. bond percolation), it is well known that there is a critical probability $0 < p_c < 1$ depending ...
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Horst Knörrer's Permutation Cancellation Problem

The Problem: The following question of Horst Knörrer is a sort of toy problem coming from mathematical physics. Let $x_1, x_2, \dots, x_n$ and $y_1,y_2,\dots, y_n$ be two sets of real numbers. We ...
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Integration over the orthogonal group

Let $O(N)$ be the orthogonal group, and $a,b,c\in\mathbb N$. The question is: $$\int_{O(N)}U_{11}^aU_{22}^bU_{33}^cdU=?$$ This is quite a tricky question: (1) The first thought would go to ...
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Guises of the noncrossing partitions (NCPs)

From "Noncrossing partitions in surprising locations" by Jon McCammond: Certain mathematical structures make a habit of reoccuring in the most diverse list of settings. Some obvious ...
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Sum of products of irreducible characters of the symmetric group over a subgroup

When trying to build a dual formulation for lattice gauge theories using Weingarten integration I am getting sums of the kind $$I^{m, n}_{\mu, \nu} (\sigma, \tau) = \sum_{\pi \in S_n} \chi_\mu (\pi \...
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Sum over a product of binomial coefficients related to a collision problem

I am working on a certain collision problem. The probability of forming $j$ particles upon collision of $m$ and $n$ particles is given by the following equation: $$R\left(n,m,j\right)=\sum_{k=0}^{n}...
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