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A system of nonlinear Diophantine equations whose positive solutions are not coprime
Consider the following system of Diophantine equations:
$$v_1k_1=k_1^3-k_2^3+k_3^3 \\
v_2k_2=k_1^3+k_2^3-k_3^3 \\
v_3k_3=-k_1^3+k_2^3+k_3^3 \tag{1}$$
where $v_1,v_2,v_3$ and $k_1,k_2,k_3$ are integer-...
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How irregular can the set of points of non-differentiability for an L1 function's primitive F get, before the FTC fails?
A Fundamental Theorem of Calculus for Lebesgue Integration, J. J. Koliha begins with the passage
Lebesgue proved a number of remarkable results on the relation between integration and differentiation....
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What are the points of the algebra of polynomial functions on an arbitrary vector space?
Let $V$ be an arbitrary vector space over some field $\mathbb{K}$ (UPD: of characteristic 0), $V^*=\mathrm{Hom}(V,\mathbb{K})$ its linear dual. Let $\mathrm{Sym}_\mathbb{K}(V^*)$ be the free ...
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Counterexamples to differentiation under integral sign?
I'm exploring differentiation under the integral sign (I want to be much faster and more assured in doing this common task). So one thing I'm interested in is good counterexamples, where both ...
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How large can the dimension of a 'Span of powers of a finite field basis' be?
Let $p$ be a prime. For finite field $\mathbb{F}_{p^k}$ and $d\in\mathbb{Z}^+$, I am considering the following quantity, where we interpret the field $\mathbb{F}_{p^k}$ also as a $\mathbb{F}_p$-vector ...
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Eigenvalue perturbation under sparse perturbations
Let $A \in \{0,1\}^{n \times n}$ be an irreducible matrix whose entries are in $\{0,1\}$, and let $\lambda_1(A)$ be the eigenvalue with the largest magnitude. By Perron–Frobenius theorem, we know that ...
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Sequential separability on $C_p(X)$
Definition. Let $E$ be a topological space. Suppose that $E$ contains a sequence $\{x_n\}$ such that for every $x\in E$, there exists a subsequence $\{x_{n_k}\}$ of $\{x_n\}$ with $x=\lim x_{n_k}$. ...
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Eigenvalue of a convolution and a restriction?
Let $\epsilon>0$ be small. Let $\eta(t) = \frac{2\epsilon}{\epsilon^2+(2\pi t)^2}$ (the Fourier transform of $x\mapsto e^{-\epsilon |x|}$). Let $V$ be the space of integrable, bounded functions $f:\...
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Dimension of the intersection of the commuting variety with a particular subspace
Let $\mathcal C$ denote the commuting variety of pairs of matrices in $M_n(\mathbb{C})$, defined as:
$$
\mathcal C = \{ (A, B) \in M_n(\mathbb{C})^2 \mid [A, B] = 0 \}.
$$
It is well known that $\...
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On compact embeddings in weighted Riesz potential spaces
I wonder if there is any references for the study of the following type of spaces
$$ X_{\delta,\alpha}=\{ u\in L^2_\delta(\mathbb{R}^n):\, u= (-\Delta)^\alpha f \quad\text{for some}\quad f\in L^2_{\...
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Bounding $(\int_{S^1}\left|\partial_r u(r\omega)\right|^2 d\omega)^{1/2}$ with $(\iint \frac{|u(x)-u(y)|^2}{|x-y|^{2+2s}} dxdy)^{1/2} $?
The following inequality is trivially true
$$\left(\int_{S^1}\left|\frac{\partial u}{\partial r}(r\omega)\right|^2 d\omega\right)^{1/2} \le \left(\int_{S^1}\left|\nabla u(r\omega)\right|^2 d\omega\...
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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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A question in spin geometry in dimension 8
$\DeclareMathOperator\trace{trace}\DeclareMathOperator\End{End}\DeclareMathOperator\Trace{Trace}$This is to understand a very specific isomorphism in dimension $8$. In dimension $4$ for a spin$^c$ ...
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Invertibility of a matrix defined using inner product
Let $n,m \geq 1$. We fix $n$ distinct vectors $x_1, ... , x_n \in \mathbb{R}^m$. We define $A \in \mathbb{R}^{n\times n}$ as
\begin{equation}
A_{ij} = x_i^T \left(n x_j - \sum_{1 \leq k \leq n} x_k \...
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Does there exist a nowhere smooth function, that has arbitrary many derivatives?
I'm sorry if my title sounds misleading, I don't know a better way to word my question briefly. But I have the following question about functions.
First, as long as $A$ is a dense subset of $\mathbb{R}...
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About BMO space on smooth open bounded domain
Let $\Omega$ be any open domain in $\Bbb R^d$.
Define the $\text{BMO}(\Omega)$ space as
$$ \text{BMO}(\Omega)= \big\{u\in L^1_{loc}(\Omega)\,\,:\,\, |u|_{\text{BMO}(\Omega)} <\infty \big\},
$$
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Reference request: continuity of Cholesky factor
It most books dealing with Cholesky decomposition, or it is variants, one finds a statement of the form if $A$ is symmetric $k\times k$ positive semi-definite (non-negative definite) then the $k\times ...
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A deceptively simple regularity problem for functions on the plane
By various meanderings and toying with simpler problems, my current research has lead me to the following quite straightforward question, which I am wholly unable to answer:
Consider a twice ...
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Function that is (essentially) a self-convolution but not a multiple of a self-convolution
Call a function $F:\mathbb{R}\to C$ nice if it is of the form $F = f\ast \tilde{f}$, where $\tilde{f}(x) = \overline{f(-x)}$. (Of course nice functions are precisely those whose Fourier transform is ...
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About the number of critical points of a function
Suppose that $f$ is a totally monotone function on $(0,\infty)$, so that $(-1)^n f^{(n)}\ge0$ for all $n=0,1,\dots$, $f(0+)\in(0,\infty)$, and $f(t)\sim\frac{1}{t^{\frac{3}{2}}}$ as $t\to\infty$. Can ...
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How to analyze the value of convergence of functions of random matrices?
Consider a random i.i.d matrix $\mathbf{A}_{m\times n}$ with entries generated from a complex Gaussian distribution with zero mean and unit variance. I am interested in the large dimension analysis of ...
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Eigenvalues of a certain combinatorially defined matrix
Let $A_n$ be the matrix whose rows and columns are indexed by pairs
$(i,j)$ with $1\leq i,j\leq n$ and $i\neq j$ (so $A$ is an
$n(n-1)\times n(n-1)$ matrix), whose $((i,j),(k,l))$-entry is 0 if
$i=k$ ...
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The number of intersection points of two completely monotonic functions
Is there a way to show that two completely bounded decreasing monotonic function which are also differentiable over $[0,\infty)$ intersect at most at one point? or showing some counterexamples.
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Inequality for hermitian matrices
Let $p_1$ and $p_2$ be a complete system of orthogonal projections on $\mathbf R^n, n \geq 2$ (i.e., $p_i^2=p_i=p_i^*$ and $p_1+p_2=\bf{1}$) and $S_1, S_2$ be two hermitian operators such that $S_i \...
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Inequality for commuting hermitian operators
Let $p_1$ and $p_2$ be a complete system of orthogonal projections on $R^n$, $n\geq 2$ (i.e., $p^2_i=p_i=p^*_i$ and $p_1+p_2=\bf{1}$) and $S_1,S_2$ be two commuting hermitian operators on $R^n$ (i.e., ...
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Tensor product of two transcendental flat algebras is not a field?
I'm considering the correctness of the following assertion, which is related to linear disjointness (I'm trying to generalize it to subalgebras), What does "linearly disjoint" mean for ...
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Decay of eigenfunctions for Laplacian
Consider the discrete second derivative with Dirichlet boundary conditions on $\mathbb C^n$.
Its eigendecomposition is fully known:
see wikipedia
It seems like the largest eigenvalue $\lambda_1$ is ...
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Prove or disprove that the matrix equation of the form $AX+XA^{-T}=0$ has a nonsingular anti-symmetric solution $X$
I’m trying to prove that for $A=J_n(i)$, that is, the Jordan block matrix corresponding to the eigenvalue $i$ of size $n$, where $n$ is even, the matrix equation $AX+XA^{-T}=0$ has a nonsingular anti-...
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Eigenfunctions of the Laplace–Beltrami operator on the coadjoint orbit of $\mathfrak{su}(n)$
$\DeclareMathOperator\SU{SU}$For $\mathfrak{su}(2,\mathbb{C})$, the generic coadjoint orbit is $\mathbb{S}^2$, and the Laplace–Beltrami operator on it is given by
$$
\Delta \equiv \frac{1}{\sin\theta} ...
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Does the support of a smooth compactly supported function have a smooth boundary?
Let $U$ be a bounded domain in $\mathbb{R}^n$ and $f:U\to \mathbb{R}^n$ an infinitely differentiable function with compact support. My question is whether $\operatorname{supp}(f)$ has a smooth ...
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Jordan plane curve such that $\frac{d(g(x),g(y))}{d(x,y)}\to0$?
Write $g$ as the inverse of $f$.
Is there a continuous injective $f:S^1\to C\subset\mathbb{R}^2$ such that
$$
\displaystyle\sup_{d(x,y)<r}\dfrac{d(g(x),g(y))}{d(x,y)}\to0
$$ as $r\to0$?
If you like,...
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Is smoothness preserved under an isometric isomorphism?
Let $(X, \|.\|_1)$ is isometrically isomorphic to $(X, \|.\|_2)$ and $\|.\|_2\leq \|.\|_1$. Assume that $x_0$ is a smooth point of $(X, \|.\|_1)$ and $\|x_0\|_2=1$. According to the definition of a ...
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An inequality related to Problem 10210 AMM 1992 No. 3
Problem. Let $A$ be a $N \times N$ real matrix whose $(i,j)$ entry is $a_{ij} \ge 0, \forall i, j$. Let $1$ denote $N\times 1$ all-ones vector. Prove that
$$N^2 1^\top A^\top A A^\top 1 \ge (1^\top A ...
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Why is the second order correction to energy zero for a fully degenerate eigensystem? [closed]
Consider the system given by,
$$ H|n\rangle = E|n\rangle$$
where:
$H$ is the hamiltonian.
$|n\rangle$ is the eigenstate.
$E$ is the energy of the eigenstate.
Using degenerate perturbation theory and ...
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Proofs of inequalities used by Erdos-Renyi in their Random Graphs Paper 1
Please refer to this, it is Erdos-Renyi 1959 paper 1 on Random Graphs. I am currently working on this, but I am stuck on the fifth page, where they use two estimates. More specifically, here's the ...
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Propositions equivalent to the completeness of the real numbers
Can anyone point me to a reasonably comprehensive article (or book chapter) explaining which basic theorems of calculus are equivalent to the completeness axiom of the reals and which ones aren't?
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Normalizers of the principal congruence subgroups in $\mathrm{GL}(n,\mathbf Q)$
A question quite similar to this question. Let $n \geqslant 3$ and $m \geqslant 2$ be natural numbers and suppose that a matrix $A \in \mathrm{GL}(n,\mathbf Q)$ normalizes the principal congruence ...
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Curl-Div equation with singular matrix
I want to solve the equation:
$$
\begin{cases}
\nabla \times (A \mathbf v)=f, \quad x\in \Omega \\
\operatorname{div}(\mathbf v)=0,
\end{cases}
$$
where $\Omega \subset\mathbb{R}^n$, is an open set, $...
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Convergence of the average weight of an infinite path through a weighted directed graph
Consider a directed graph $G = (V, E, w)$, where $V$ is the set of vertices, $E \subseteq V \times V$ is the set of directed edges (with self-loops allowed), and $w : E \to \mathbb{R}_+$ is a weight ...
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max eigenvalue and schatten-1 norm of depolarizing channel acting on trace-0 Hermitian matrix
Denote $\mathcal{H}^n$ as the $n-$dimension Hermitian matrices. Depolarizing channel $\Delta_p:\mathcal{H}^2\to\mathcal{H}^2$ is defined as $\Delta_p(A)=p\text{ tr }(A)~I/2+(1-p)A$ where $A\in \...
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Why are the homeomorphisms from the unit circle to the unit circle preserving measure affine? [closed]
Why are the homeomorphisms from the unit circle to the unit circle preserving measure affine? The affine is composition of rotation and continue automorphism.
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Function of two sets intersection
Let $U$ be the set of all nonempty subsets of $[0,1]$ that are a union of finitely many closed intervals (where an "interval" that is a single point does not count as an interval). Does ...
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Components of a Gram matrix and its eigenvalues
The Gram Matrix is defined as $$\sum_{i=1}^n X_iX_i^T,$$ where $X_i$ is drawn from the unit sphere based according to some continuous distribution (Relation between eigenvalues and the gram matrix for ...
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Holomorphic functions of certain blow up at origin
Suppose that $D=\{z\in \mathbb C\,:\, |z|\leq 1\}$ and let $f$ be holomorphic on $D\setminus\{0\}$ such that $|f(z)|\leq e^{\frac{1}{|z|}}$ for all $0<|z|\leq 1$ and assume additionally that $\lim\...
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Fourier decay implies what kind of regularity
We consider a function $f:\mathbb R^2 \to \mathbb C$ that is compactly supported and bounded. In addition, we know that
$$\lim_{\vert x\vert \to \infty} \vert x \vert^2 \vert \hat{f}(x)\vert =0,$$
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integral over the unit sphere of $\Bbb C^n$
Please, is there a way to calculate this integral
$$\int_{S_{2n-1}} \frac{e^{a \langle z, \zeta \rangle}}{|z - \zeta|^{\beta}} \, d\sigma(\zeta)$$
where $ z $ is a fixed point in the complex unit ball ...
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Hadamard product decomposition with lower rank matrices
Given integers $k$ and $l$ and a matrix $A$ of rank $kl$, can we always find a matrix $B$ of rank $k$ and a matrix $C$ of rank $l$, such that $A$ is the Hadamard product of $B$ and $C$, namely $A=B \...
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Fourier transform of exponential over torus
I found the following formula for the Fourier transform on a flat 2-torus, but I don't quite know how to derive it. We have a variable $q=(q_x,q_y) \in [0,2\pi)^2$ and by considering it in polar ...
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Asymptotic behavior of the Hermite functions
I would like to understand the asymptotic behavior of the Hermite function :
$$\psi_k(x) = \frac{1}{\sqrt{2^k k!}}H_k(x) e^{-\frac{x^2}{2}},$$
where $H_k(x)$ is the $k-$th Hermite polynomial. For ...
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Linear automorphism preserving a cone
Let $V$ be a finite-dimensional real vector space, and let $C\subset V$ be a closed convex cone, not contained in a hyperplane, and such that $C\cap(-C)=\{0\} $. Let $n$ be a nilpotent endomorphism of ...
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