# All Questions

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### direct limit with index in a monoid

In Daniel Quillen, On the group completion of a simplicial monoid, MIT preprint 1971, Memoirs of the AMS vol 529, 1994, pp. 89-105, page 92, line 10 - line 15: The monoid $S$ of the index may not ...
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### “Most Similar Vector Problem” on an Integer Lattice?

I am currently working on problem that I think could be expressed as an integer lattice problem. Given $u \in \mathbb{R}^n$ and a bounded integer lattice $L = \mathbb{Z}^n \cap [-M,M]^n$ I would like ...
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### SO$(4)$ (& SO$(n)$) characterization?

I believe it is the case that any finite subgroup of SO$(3)$ (the $3 \times 3$ orthogonal matrices of determinant $1$) is either a cyclic group $C_n$, or a dihedral group $D_n$, or one of the groups ...
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### Modular factorization of Dedekind zeta functions

It is well known that for abelian number fields, the factorization of its Dedekind zeta function goes like this: $$\zeta_K=\zeta\prod_\chi L(s,\chi)$$ with the Dirichlet characters distinct and ...
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### Number of samples needed as input to Bernoulli factory

Let $\{X_i\}$ denote an i.i.d. sequence of Bernoulli variables with parameter $p$. A Bernoulli factory is a procedure that generates events with probability $f(p)$ using the observations $\{X_i\}$, ...
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### History of unstable formulas

There are many equivalent definitions for stability, one of them being that being unstable is equivalent to the existence of a formula having the order property. While intuitively it makes sense that ...
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### Bounded input Bounded output stability for heat equation

This is a cross-post from Computational Science. I am interested in proving or obtaining a counterexample to the following conjecture. Let $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^d$ be a bounded open domain. Let ...
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### Co-quasitriangular Hopf algebra - notation

In one article I found the following statement : If $A$ is a Hopf algebra over $k$ with co-quasitriangular structure $r$, then one can define map $r_{21}*r:A\otimes A\rightarrow k \ \$ (...). ...
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### Consistency strength of being strong cardinal and indestructible under collapses

What is the consistency strength of the following statement: $\kappa$ is a strong cardinals and it is indestructible under $Col(\kappa, <\theta),$ where $\theta> \kappa$ is some fixed ...
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### Connes Embedding Conjecture and Fusion Categories

I was recently introduced to Connes' Embedding Conjecture (CEC) which states: Every separable type $II_{1}$ factor is embeddable into $R^{\omega}$. Where $\omega$ is a generic free ultrafilter on ...
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### Can somone explain a global cascade condition in plain english? [on hold]

Details here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_cascades_model#Global_cascades_condition If I have a hierarchical structure, what is the required number of nodes / clusters of nodes required to ...
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### Analysis of the Laplacian of a random bipartite graph

My analysis of an engineering problem reduced to analysis of the Laplacian of a (random) bipartite graph. There are a few particular questions I am interested in, but not sure which direction to take ...
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### Variance of a functional of transition probabilities using spectral gap of Markov chain

Consider an irreducible, aperiodic, time-reversible, discrete-time Markov chain on a finite state space $S$ whose Markov kernel is $K$ and unique stationary distribution is $\pi.$ Then, reversibility ...
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### From polynomial ideal over $\mathbb{Q}$ to polynomial ideal over $\mathbb{Z}$

Is there an algorithm to compute, given a polynomial ideal $I\subset \mathbb{Q}[x_1,\dotsc,x_n]$, the ideal $I\cap \mathbb{Z}[x_1,\dotsc,x_n]$ in $\mathbb{Z}[x_1,\dotsc,x_n]$? The input and ...
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### Is the stack of varieties with a big line bundle algebraic

In Starr's paper https://www.math.stonybrook.edu/~jstarr/papers/moduli4.pdf the folk result that the fibred category of pairs $(X\to S, L)$, where $S$ is an affine scheme, $X\to S$ is flat proper ...
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### A relative property gamma and $L(\mathbb F_2)$

Given any unital non-commutative subalgebra $\mathcal M$ of $L(\mathbb F_2)$ is it true that $\mathcal M' \bigcap L(\mathbb F_2)^\mathcal U = \mathbb C I$ for any free ultrafilter $\mathcal U$?
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### A question on $J(f)$ and $J(f')$

I was confused by the following question for a long time: Does there exists a transcendental entire function $f$ such that $J(f)\cap J(f')=\emptyset$ ? where $J(f)$, ($J(f')$) is the Julia set of ...
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### Relaxation of non-convex QCQP with one quadratic and one linear constraint

According to Boyd we know that a non-convex QCQP problem with one quadratic constraint has strong duality with the relaxed SDP or Lagrange counterpart. (check "Convex Optimization" by Boyd, Appendix ...
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### Why only Normed Linear Spaces? [on hold]

It is well known that "Norm on a vector space can be used to obtain a metric on that space." I think easily we can generalize the notion of norms to groups and rings. My questions are, Why ...
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### Root number of an anticyclotomic twist

Let $\lambda$ be a self-dual Hecke character over a CM field $K$ with root number $-1$. How to show the existence of a finite order anticyclotomic Hecke character $\chi$ over $K$ such that the twist ...
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### A Feynman-Kac style derivation of a survival probability of a Compound Poisson process

Let $$R_t = u + \beta t - \sum^{N_t}_{i=1}U_i$$where $u\geq 0$, $\beta > 0$, $N_t$ is a Poisson counting process with intensity $\lambda$ and $U_i$ are jumps having a probability density $\nu(y)$ ...
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### Questions about “On the homology of configuration spaces”

In the paper On the homology of configuration spaces, Bodigheimer-Cohen-Taylor, Topology 1989, Section 2.5, line 6 - line 8: Question: How to prove this claim? My attempt: I tried to prove that when ...
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### Detecting positive endomaps of the formal reals

A locale is a sort of "formal topological space", which "may not have enough points to separate its open sets". For instance, there is a "locale of all real numbers that are both rational and ...
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### Coherent cohomology of the moduli space of curves

Is $H^i\left(\overline{\mathcal M}_g, \mathcal O_{\overline{\mathcal M}_g}\right)$ nontrivial for any $i>0$ and any $g$? I was not able to find literature on this after searching for a bit, ...
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### Any formula for the partial sum of a remainder series?

Let $N \ge 1$ be an integer, and there is a series $\{ N \mod 1, N \mod 2, ... , N \mod i, ... \}$. Obviously when $i \gt N+1$, the series will become $\{N, N, N, ..., \}$. So only take $i \le N$ ...
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### Angle sum of triangle in Schwarzschild solution [on hold]

Curvature of space is often intuitively explained as angles of a triangle not adding up to 180 degrees. I was wondering how well that applies in the context of General Relativity. Suppose you have a ...
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### Surgery along an arc connecting the components of a $2$-component link gives the unknot

Math Overflow seems to have a dearth of low dimensional topology, but this seems like an interesting question. Let $L$ be a $2$-component link in $S^3$. Suppose that there is a framed arc joining the ...
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### What's the relationship between the different versions of the BBD decomposition theorem?

I have a few questions relating to the BBD decomposition theorem. I have come across the following two versions of the decomposition theorem. Version 1. Let $f : X \to Y$ be a proper map of ...
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### cross-sections of a sphere bundle

Let $M$ be a $m$-manifold and $M_0$ a submanifold of $M$. Let $X$ be a pointed topological space. In the paper On the homology of configuration spaces, Bodigheimer-Cohen-Taylor, Topology 1989, ...
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### Does stationary reflection imply Mahloness?

Suppose $\kappa$ is strongly inaccessible and every stationary subset of $\kappa$ reflects. Must $\kappa$ be Mahlo? Remarks: It is possible for every stationary subset of $\kappa$ to reflect, but ...
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### Can we always add sets without collapsing cardinals or adding [very] bounded sets?

Given a model of $\sf ZFC$, and an infinite ordinal $\alpha$. Can we prove that there is always a cardinal $\kappa$, and a forcing $\Bbb P$, such that: $\Bbb P$ does not add sets of rank ...
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### Counting elements with certain word length in abelian groups

Given a (finite) abelian group $G = \langle S \mid R \rangle$, has the problem of counting the number of elements which can be expressed as a word (in $S$) of length $\leq k$ been studied? If so, ...
Given two abelian monoidal categories ${\cal C,D}$ (where the monoidal operation is bilinear) and an additive monoidal functor $F:{\cal C} \to {\cal D}$. Will $F$ always admit an adjoint?
Let $\mathbf{n}$ is a Gaussian random vector with mean $\mathbf{0}$ and co-variance matrix $\mathbf{H}$. Let $\mathbf{r} = Sign(\mathbf{n})$, where $Sign(n_i) = 1$ if $n_i>0$ and $Sign(n_i) = -1$ ...