# All Questions

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### On the induced norms of stochastic operator and its adjoint operator

The background: when studying the paper published in Automatica named '$H_{\infty}$ control and filtering of discrete-time stochastic systems with multiplicative noise' (volume 37, pp. 409-417), I ...
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### Truncated Robbins-Monro

I'm reading Han-Fu Chen's book "Stochastic Approximation and Its Applications", and in Chapter 1, he's got a statement of a theorem and proof on a truncated Robbins-Monro algorithm. In this version, ...
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### Distinct 2D RCFTs with the same underlying MTC

A 2d rational conformal field theory (RCFT) gives rise to a modular tensor category (MTC) equipped with a Frobenius algebra object (see, for example, http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0204148). Is there an ...
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### A not-so-weak Goldbach's conjecture

While Goldbach's conjecture (every even integer greater than 2 can be expressed as the sum of two primes) remains open, one can weaken the question by asking whether every (even,odd) integer can be ...
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### How did Cole factor $2^{67}-1$ in 1903

I just heard a This American Life episode which recounted the famous anecdote about Frank Nelson Cole factoring $N:=2^{67}-1$ as $193707721 \times 761838257287$. There doesn't seem to be a historical ...
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### $\mathcal S'(\mathbb R^d)$ is separable

I Think the statement is true, but I struggle to find a reference for the fact that the space of tempered distributions equipped with the weak-* topology is separable. Thank you for your help!
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### Understanding Mathematics [on hold]

I don't feel like I understand mathematics until I have an idea of how it was discovered or derived because otherwise it doesn't make sense and it takes along time to do that does that happen to ...
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### Descrition of clipping algorithm in Murta's gpc [on hold]

I have searched but failed to get a algorithmic description of the algorithm used by Alan murta in general polygon clipper.It is NOT vatti,for sure. Unfortunately old versions of his code are also ...
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### How does deletion-contraction affect chromatic number? Can it increase chromatic number?

Question: In graph theory, contracting an edge or deleting an edge are basic operations in many topics such as graph minors or Wagner's theorem on planar graphs. And I'm interested in how these ...
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### what is exactly the difference between the Selberg class and the set of Artin L-functions?

The question is in the title: from what I read in the answer to another question, Artin L-functions are conjecturally cuspidal automorphic L-functions for some algebraic group that can be transfered ...
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### Iterative methods for linear algebra, Convergence and divergence of a 5 x 5 system [on hold]

I have one question. it states that "solve a system A(5*5) . X(5*5) = B(5*1) such that jacobi method diverges but gauss seidal converges. Also, solve a system A(5*5) . X(5*5) = B(5*1) such that gauss ...
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### Algorithm to find the vertices of the equidistant lines between N closed polygonal lines

I have a set $\{C_1, C_2, \ldots, C_N\}$ of $N$ nonintersecting closed piecewise linear curves on the Euclidean plane. For every point $x \in \mathbb{R}^2$ we say it belongs to a territory serviced by ...
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### Minimality of maximal expansions of a hypergraph cover

This is a follow-up question to Maximal expansions of strongly minimal covers of hypergraphs -- for definitions refer to that question. Does every strongly minimal cover have a maximal expansion that ...
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### Decomposition of hyperbolic surfaces near cusps into annuli

Let $C=\mathbb{H}/\Gamma$ be a hyperbolic surface and $c$ a cusp of this sruface. In the paper "Billiards and Teichmüller curves on Hilbert modular surfaces" by C. McMullen, it is claimed that near ...
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### Sobolev space for Mixed Dirichlet - Neumann boundary condition

Consider the subset $\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^N$ with boundary $\partial\Omega$ sufficiently regular and let $\Gamma\subset\partial\Omega$ be a $(N-1)$- dimensional submanifold of $\partial\Omega$. ...
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### Reference request for some “irregularities of distribution” papers

I would like to ask if anyone has access to any of the following papers: 1. J. G. van der Corput, Proc. Kon. Ned. Alcad. v. Wetensch., Amsterdam, 38, 813-821 (1935). 2. J. G. van der Corput, ibid. 38, ...
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### Lists of sets as objects of ZF axiomatics [migrated]

I have a naive question about foundations of mathematics. A common opinion of most mathematicians is that the essential part of mathematics can be reduced to ZF(C) axioms. I do not quite understand ...
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### what are the practical applications of sets in our daily life? [on hold]

I don`t know the answer to this question?I know I sound stupid writing something in my own question but the computer was forcing me to write something.
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### Examples of toric threefolds

I am looking for examples of smooth projective toric threefolds $\mathbb P_\Delta$ such that the rational polytope $\Delta$ has only pentagonal faces and hexagonal faces. I quickly searched for ...
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### Maximal expansions of strongly minimal covers of hypergraphs

Let $H = (V,E)$ be a hypergraph, that is $V$ is a set and $E \subseteq {\cal P}(V)$. We assume $\bigcup E = V$. Moreover we assume that every $e\in E$ is contained in some maximal member $e'\in E$ ...
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### Is a toric blow-up in codimension 2 a real toric blow-up?

Let $X, Y$ be toric projective algebraic varieties over $\mathbb{C}$. Suppose that $X$ and $Y$ are $\mathbb{Q}$-factorial and smooth in codimension two (e.g. they have terminal singularities). Let ...
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### $A_n \not \rightharpoonup A$ in $L_1[-\pi; \pi]$ ( $A_n$ is partial fourier sum )

Let \begin{equation*} (A_n x)(t) = \frac{a_0}{2} + \sum\limits_{k=1}^n a_k cos(kt) + b_k sin(kt), \\ a_k = \frac{1}{\sqrt{\pi}} \int_{-\pi}^{\pi} x(t) cos(kt) dt, \\ b_k = \frac{1}{\sqrt{\pi}} ...
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### growth series of groups [on hold]

As I know, in the literature there are formulas for groth series of direct product, free product and free product with amalgamation and graph product of groups. Is there any formula that gives groth ...
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### Explicitly describing the region of the plane “outward of” a simple, open, oriented, cubic curve $c:(0,1)\to\mathbb{R}^2$

Some Context: I'm working with some data given in the form of Bezier curves. I need to sort these (partially ordered) Bezier curves by "outwardness" (described below) and have come across an ...
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### interpolation between Bochner spaces

Is there a reference for the interpolation result stating the existence of an embedding L^2(I;W^{2,p}(\Omega)) \cap H^1(I;L^p(\Omega)) \hookrightarrow ...
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### Alexander duality for non-manifolds

Let $X$ be a CW complex and $A$ a subcomplex. I will assume that both are compact, and that $X$ is $n$-dimensional. Furthermore, assume that the local homology of $X$ is that of a manifold in a ...
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### I cannot solve this question! HELP [on hold]

Imagine a 100 storey building. You want to find the highest floor from which an iphone, when dropped, will not break. If an iphone is dropped and does not break, it can be used again with no adverse ...
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### is there a moduli of stable infinity categories?

I know there exists a groupoid-valued prestack parameterizing (connected) triangulated dg-categories (ie the points of this moduli are not objects of a fixed dg-category, but rather dg-categories ...
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### What methods do we have to understand the spectrum of matrices with restricted entries?

Consider questions of the form (or the "most probable value of" version of these questions rather than the "largest possible"), What is the largest possible spectral radius of a $n \times n$ matrix ...
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### Non-trivial summand in End(\rho)

Given a finite group representation $\rho:G\to GL_n(\mathbb C)$ one knows that the trivial representation $\mathbb 1$ is contained in $End(\rho)$. Let $\rho'$ be the other summand, i.e., $\rho'$ is ...
Let $E/\mathbb{Q}$ be an elliptic curve of conductor $N$ and let $f$ be its newform. Suppose $p \geq 5$ is a prime such that $p^2 \mid N$. We assume $f$ is $p$-minimal, which is equivalent to that the ...
### Searching for $C^*$ [on hold]
I am trying to search on MathSciNet for articles which contains $C^*$ in their title (as in $C^*$-algebras) however I can't figure out how to get MathSciNet not to interpret the '*' as a stand in for ...