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Generalization of a standard algebraic group theory result for a tensor problem
$\DeclareMathOperator\GL{GL}$Let $X$, $Y$, $Z$ be $\mathbb{C}$-vector spaces, and let $A\subseteq X$ and $B\subseteq Y$ and $C\subseteq Z$ be linear subspaces. Let $V=X \otimes Y \otimes Z$, acted on ...
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How is this product of tensors defined?
I am reading the paper “ The first eigenvalue of a small geodesic ball in a riemannian manifold”, by Karp and Pinsky, from where I took the following:
Here, $\Delta_{-2}$ denotes the usual Laplacian ...
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Space of all orthogonal $2\times2\times2$ tensors
I am trying to understand the space of all orthogonal tensors, a question asked here before but with no real solution yet found. The solutions for order-$2$ tensors are clear so thus the simplest case ...
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Is there a fast way to do this tensor power/trace operation?
Well, I asked this question on Math SE, and didn't get any responses, so I'm trying it here.
Given an $M*N*P$ tensor $T$, is there a fast way of computing the following "eighth-power trace"?
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Pseudo-tensor- and tensor-densities: Sections of what bundle?
Let $\mathcal{M}$ be a smooth manifold. A tensor field is then usually defined to be a section of the tensor bundle
$$\bigotimes_{i=1}^{p}T\mathcal{M}\otimes\bigotimes_{i=1}^{q}T^{\ast}\mathcal{M}.$$
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Given a specific tensor on $V^{\otimes d}$, which $GL(V)$ orbit does the tensor belong to?
Suppose we have a vector space $V$ over a field $K$, with basis vectors $\hat{\bf{e}}_k$, and suppose we define a tensor
$$
\Lambda = \lambda_{i_1, ..., i_d} (\hat{\bf{e}}_{i_1} \otimes ... \otimes \...
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Are mixed discriminants and hyper-determinants the same thing?
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Hello, I'm trying to learn more about hyperdeterminants, but as I'm sifting through the literature I'm finding more and more papers on Mixed discriminant and I find their definitions extremely ...
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Cannot multivectors be classified more easily than general tensors?
This is sort of a spinoff of Is there a useful generalization of the Schmidt decomposition to the tensoring together of 3 or more vector spaces? - seems to be almost hopeless, but maybe some partial ...
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Generalization of Carleman coefficients to multivariable functions - Carleman tensor?
Recently I learned about a matrix called
Carleman matrix. It is a matrix used to represent function iteration with matrix multiplying.
Carleman linearization is a technique used to embed a finite
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Finding the particular and general solutions to Einstein Field Equations under generalized Vaidya Geometry
The problem I have is on finding the particular and general solutions to Einstein Field Equations under generalized Vaidya Geometry, which comes from the following paper : https://journals.aps.org/prd/...
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Obtaining the metric from the mixed Ricci tensor $R^i{}_j$
In chapter 5 of the book "Einstein Manifolds", Arthur Besse discusses the possibility to find the metric $g$ when knowing the Ricci curvature tensor $Ric(g)$ ($=R_{ij}$).
But what do we know about ...
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Invariant theory for unitary groups $\mathcal{U}(n)$
I'm trying to understand the invariant theory of the unitary groups $\mathcal{U}(n)$ on tensor powers of their standard representations $V^{\otimes p} \otimes (V^*)^{\otimes q}$. Let $\mathcal{U}(n)$ ...
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Adjoint to "strict twocategory of strict twofunctors"
Let C be the category of strict twofunctors, featuring the addition of a Grothendieck universe. Strict twocategories are categories enriched over the category of categories.
C has an internal hom ...
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$1$-parameter family of metrics preserving the normal direction
Let $(M^n,g)$ be a compact Riemannian manifold with boundary, $n \geq 2$, and let $N$ be the unit outward normal to $\partial M$. Denote by $S^2(M)$ the symmetric covariant $2$-tensors, by $S^2_0(M)$ ...
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Is 'weak' Strassen Conjecture true?
$\newcommand{\rank}{\mathop{\mathrm{rank}}}$Strassen conjectured for two tensors $T_{1}$ and $T_{2}$, $\rank(T_{1}\oplus T_{2})=\rank(T_{1})+\rank(T_{2})$. This is not generally true according to ...
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What are examples of "perfect tensors"?
A "perfect tensor" is defined on the nLab very abstractly as "its tensor/hom-adjuncts $V^{\otimes k} \to V^{\otimes n - k}$ for $k \le n/2$ are isometries". The only example I'm ...
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The Ricci curvature is bounded below by scalar curvature
So I have more questions coming from Dr Hamilton's "Three-Manifolds with Positive Ricci Curvature" paper here. I'm working in section 9 on Preserving Positive Ricci Curvature. In theorem 9.4,...
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Best approximation with tensors of rank $\ge2$
Let $k\in\mathbb N$, $H_i$ be a (finite-dimensional, if necessary) $\mathbb R$-Hilbert space for $i\in I:=\{1,\ldots,k\}$, $H:=\bigotimes_{i\in I}H_i$ denote the tensor product$^1$ of $(H_i)_{i\in I}$ ...
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Estimates for tensors using local coordinates
Suppose that we have a Kähler manifold $(M, \omega_0)$ and another $(1,1)$ form $\eta$ on $M$. Let $\varphi$ be a smooth function such that $\omega_{\varphi} = \omega_0 + i \partial \bar \partial \...
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Naive generalization of determinant from matrices to higher rank tensors
Recall that using the Levi-Cevita symbol the determinant can be written as
$$\operatorname{det} A=\frac{1}{n!}\epsilon_{i_1\dots i_n}\epsilon_{j_1\dots j_n}A_{i_1j_1}\dots A_{i_nj_n}$$
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For a manifold of positive curvature, can we lower bound the distance between unit normals?
Suppose $M \subset \mathbb R^d$ is a $C^2$ $(d-1)$-manifold. In particular I am interested in when $M$ is the set $\{x \in \mathbb R^d: f(x) \le 1\}$ for some $C^2$ function $f:\mathbb R^d \to \...
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Rank-1 decomposability of symmetric tensors
My question is about rank-1 decomposability of symmetric tensors over the reals.
Let $v_1,\dots,v_n\in\mathbb{R}^d$ be vectors. Construct the object:
$$
V=\sum_{j=1}^n \underbrace{v_j\otimes v_j\...
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Example Petrov Classification
I would like to calculate the Petrov type for a specific spacetime, unfortunately I am not able to find a step by step algorithm or example for the process, either using null-tetrad, nor calculating ...
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Product of cotton-york tensor with ricci tensor
In the process of calculation of a problem in tensor analysis, I have encountered with an expression given by $$C^{ij}R_{ij}=0.$$
This is for a Riemannian manifold of dimension 3. Assuming the ...
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Bounds on the tensor and border rank ratios of tensor unfoldings?
Consider $T_1 \in \mathbb{C}^{d_1 \times \cdots \times d_k}$ as an order-$k$ tensor of the format $(d_1, \cdots , d_k)$. Now, let $T_2$ be an unfolding of $T_1$ that is obtained by merging $\mathbb{C}^...
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Doubt on the best low rank approximation of a symmetric tensor
I have a matrix $M\in\mathbb{R}^{n\times k}$, with $k<n$ whose columns $m_i$ are linearly independent.
So we have $M := [m_1|..|m_k]$.
From the columns of $M$ I can define the following matrix
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Smoothness of a (given) global section of a vector bundle over G(2,6)
Let $G=Gr(2,6)$ the Grassmannian of two planes in $V=\mathbb C^6$, and let $\mathcal Q(1)$ the rank four quotient bundle on it twisted with $\mathcal O_G(1) \cong $ det$(S^*)$, $S$ being the ...
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Mixed tensor index position significance
What is the significance of tensor index position?
For example the fourth order Riemann curvature tensor
\begin{align}
R^m_{ijk}
\end{align}
or
\begin{align}
R^{\phantom{i}m}_{i\phantom{m}jk}.
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Tensor of Relative Bases
Suppose $U,V,W$ are the cyclotomic fields $\mathbb{Q}(\zeta_{m_3})$, $\mathbb{Q}_(\zeta_{m_2})$, and $\mathbb{Q}(\zeta_{m_1})$ respectively, where $m_1 \mid m_2 \mid m_3$ so that $U/V/W$ is a tower of ...
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Space of all orthogonal partially complex $2\times2\times2$ tensors
I am trying to understand the space of all orthogonal tensors, I asked a more general version of this question here but with no solution yet found. I want to look at the simplest case first, namely a $...
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Can numerical differentiation be applied to tensor derivatives?
I know that for a 1D function, I can calculate the numerical derivative at every point, $\DeclareMathOperator{\d}{d\!} (x_1,y_1)$, with $\d y/\d x$ where $\d y = y_2 - y_0$ and $\d x = x_2 - x_0$. If ...
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About "residual" scalar curvature in Einstein warped product manifold
I have an Einstein warped product manifold $M=B \times_f F$ with warped metric $g=g^B+f^2g^F$, where $F$ is Ricci flat, then its scalar curvature is $S^F=0$.
It is well known that the scalar curvature ...
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Some kind of product of two 2d tensors to create a 3d tensor?
I recently need to apply the following concept of product of two 2d tensors to create a 3d tensor (tensors understood as generalized arrays):
given two 2d tensors $A_{m\times n}$ and $B_{n\times p}$, ...
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tensor dimension/reshaping group
Consider an $N$ dimensional tensor $T$ using the strided view representation used by PyTorch, i.e. we have a storage vector $S$ projected into $N$ dimensions using a size tuple $s$ and a stride tuple $...
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Tucker decompositions over arbitrary fields
Given an $n$-mode tensor $\mathcal{T}\in\mathbb{R}^{d_1\times\dotsb\times d_n}$, there exists a Tucker decomposition of $\mathcal T$ of the form
$$\mathcal{T} = \mathcal{X}\times_1 W_1\times_2\dotsb\...
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Adjacency matrix/tensor operations for graph sequences?
Consider a graph $G=(V,E)$. Its adjacency matrix $A$ is defined by $A_{u,v} = 1$ if $(u,v)\in E$, $0$ otherwise.
Consider a vector $x$ that associates a value $x_v$ to each vertex of $G$. Consider the ...
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References Request: Bach tensor
Recently I want to study about Bach tensor in detail. From the fundemental definition and properties to conformal invariant. Is there any references to me about Bach tensor? If there are some origins ...
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Spectral theorem for symmetric real tensors
Is there a definition of eigenvalues that allows to use a spectral theorem?
Let $\mathbf{T}$ be a real fully symmetric tensor of order $3$ and size $N$. Its components can be represented as $T_{ijk}\...
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Compute Frobenius inner product of two tensor-trains in terms of tensor contractions
Let $p\in\mathbb N$, $n\in\mathbb N^p$ and identify the Hilbert space tensor $\bigotimes_{k=1}^p\mathbb R^{n_k}$ with $\mathbb R^{n_1\times\cdots\times n_p}$ (equipped with the Euclidean inner product)...
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Show that a tensor-train is contained in a recursive sequence of subspaces
Let
$p\in\mathbb N$;
$n_k\in\mathbb N$ and $\left(e^{(k)}_1,\ldots,e^{(k)}_{n_k}\right)$ denote the standard basis of $\mathbb R^{n_k}$ for $k\in\{1,\ldots,p\}$;
$u\in\bigotimes_{k=1}^p\mathbb R^{n_k}...
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Images and Kernels of tensor products of homomorphisms of modules
Let $\mathcal{H}$ be a Hopf algebra and let $M_1,M_2,N_1,N_2$ modules over $\mathcal{H}$. If $f:M_1\rightarrow N_1$ and $g:M_2\rightarrow N_2$ are homomorphisms of modules, then are the following ...
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On symmetric tensors with same rank, different orders
Let $A,B$ be two symmetric tensors of same rank $m$; and orders $k$ and $\ell$, respectively. In particular, assume that $A,B$ admits the following structure: There exists $v_1,\dots,v_m\in\mathbb{R}^...
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Non Negative Tensor Tucker Decomposition Error Degradation
I have been working on iterative decomposition methods of tensors with non negativity constraints. I have noticed that $\textbf{N}$on negative $\textbf{T}$ensor $\textbf{F}$actorization "NTF" which is ...
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Possibility Of Curvature and/or Mellin based approach to (Non-linear) system Identification?
I have some experience in non-linear system identification (from an experimental point of view) using higher oder spectral analysis. I see this is the most popular way of identifying non-linearities ...
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Null vector fields given Bondi metric
I'm trying to understand how to compute the null future-directed vector fields if I have a given (Bondi) metric
$g=-e^{2\nu}du^{2}-2e^{\nu+\lambda}dudr+r^{2}d\Omega$
with $d\Omega$-standard metric ...
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How to find the tensor product of modules that we don't know a basis for them?
Hi
I know how to calculate some easy tensor products like $\mathbb{Z}/m\mathbb{Z} \otimes_{\mathbb{Z}} \mathbb{Z}/n\mathbb{Z}\cong_{\mathbb{Z}} \mathbb{Z}/(m,n)\mathbb{Z} $ or $F[X] \otimes_{F} F[Y] \...
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tensor/hypermatrix analogues of $GL(n,\mathbb{C})$?
Please excuse me if this question turns out to be incredibly silly for one reason or another.
Are there tensor/hypermatrix analogues of $GL(n,\mathbb{C})$ that are interesting? What I'm mainly ...
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A question from Richard Hamilton's paper "A matrix Harnack estimate for the heat equation"
Richard Hamilton "A matrix Harnack estimate for the heat equation. Communications in Analysis and Geometry. 1(1993), 113-126."
On page 125, at the end of the proof of Theorem 4.3, I abstract ...
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Is the kernel $\vert d_X - d_Y \vert^p$ conditionally negative definite?
Given two finite metric spaces $(X,d_X)$ and $(Y,d_Y)$, for $p > 0$, define the kernel ($4$-D tensor) $K$ on $(X \times Y)^2$ by:
$$K\big( (x_i, y_k), (x_j, y_l) \big) = \vert d_X(x_i, x_j) - d_Y(...
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Solving nonlinear differential multi-variable equation with block-matrices
Here is the problem:
Given a formula $f:\mathbb{R}^{n+k}\rightarrow\mathbb{R}^n$, written as $f(x_1(t),x_2(t),...,x_n(t);a1,...ak)$ with $k$ real unknown parameters $a_1,...,a_k$. For any $(a1,...ak)$,...
