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Ramanujan's $\tau(n)$ and continued fractions

Anything that's true is likely to be quite deep, so a more realistic (but vague) question is: Are there other examples of this kind of 'numerology'? …
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Ramanujan's $\tau(n)$ and continued fractions

Since the OP asked for other examples of this kind of numerology,I will give another one to support his observation The function $\cos(\theta_{11})$ has the following closed form $\cos(\theta_{11})=\frac …
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Some fusion rings/categories I don't recognize

Just a guess, but the numerology seems to work out. About the two last ones, what about zestings of $ch(Q_{16})$ and $ch(SD_{16})$? …
Sebastien Palcoux's user avatar
8 votes
2 answers
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Permutohedron and triangulation of cube via Eulerian numbers

Question: Is there some deeper geometric connection between a triangulation of the hypercube and the permuotohedron suggested by this numerology? …
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Asymptotic densities of rules of elementary cellular automata

Or is the finding spurious and/or numerology? …
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Another Goldbach variation for odd numbers?

Dabbling in the dark art of numerology, one observes that every odd integer $2n+1\geq 5$ up to $10^7$ (where my computer got somewhat tired) can be written as $$2n+1=p+2^kq$$ with $p$ a prime, $k$ an integer …
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Experimental mathematics leading to major advances

multiple zeta values to renormalized Feynman integrals; Thistlethwaite's discovery of links with trivial Jones polynomial; The Monstrous Moonshine; McKay's account on experimentation leading to mysterious "numerology
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Finite field Szemeredi-Trotter theorem with unequal number of points and lines

[edit: updated the picture to have correct numerology, and corrected (1)] …
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Almost "dense" subsets of primes (and may be not only primes)

Some criteria are not interesting if they involve digits base 10 - this is just a numerology (for example, delicate primes). …
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Which finite posets are Koszul self-dual?

Then Eulerian-ness is required by the numerology relating Hilbert series of a Koszul algebra to that of its quadratic dual, as in the reference [1, Lemma 2.11.1] by Beilinson, Ginzburg, and Soergel. …
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Intersection of $\mathrm{PGL}_2(q_0)$'s in $\mathrm{PGL}_2(q_0^3)$

$\DeclareMathOperator\PGL{PGL}\DeclareMathOperator\GL{GL}$I would like an explanation for some strange numerology which I encountered when studying intersections of subfield subgroups in $\PGL_2(q)$. … Under this assumption we have the following remarkable numerology: If $L\cong C_{q_0-1}$, then $|x(L)|=q_0^2+q_0 = |H: L|$. If $L\cong C_{q_0+1}$, then $|x(L)|=q_0^2-q_0 = |H:L|$. …
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Is the weight in Serre's conjecture "minimal"?

So it has a crystalline lift with Hodge-Tate weights $(s,t) = (4,1)$ [but not $(2,1)$] and the numerology is that the Serre weight associated to this lift is $\mathrm{det}^t \otimes \mathrm{Sym}^{s-t-1 …
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The critical exponent function

An intense numerology session would be needed to get it closer to a proof. The problem sounds like something someone would've thought about already. …
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Moore graphs and finite projective geometry

from 2009 about the hypothetical Moore graph(s) of degree 57 and girth 5, Gordon Royle offered the following observation (reproduced here in full for the sake of preservation): Here’s some blue-sky numerology
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Do Bernoulli polynomials know about face vectors?

This question is grounded firmly in numerology. It originates in an observation about some Bernoulli polynomials and the regular icosahedron. …

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