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Mathematical formalization of physics
You are asking for a theory with three non-negative real parameters ($1/c$, $\hbar$, and the gravitational constant $G$) that is "continuous in the parameters" in some sense, but we only know good theories that live on the boundary. I don't see how categories would help here without some very strong uniqueness-under-deformation results.
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Is strictly harder than NP-hard cryptography possible?
Since the discussion is concerned with asymmetric encryption, shouldn't "polynomial time" have a dependence on key length?
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Russell's paradox as understood by current set theorists
@user253751 This sort of unbounded hierarchy of classes can be axiomatized using universes: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grothendieck_universe
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Roadmap to learning the classification of finite simple groups
You can find some overviews of the proof in Aschbacher's "Finite Group Theory" and Gorenstein's "Finite Simple Groups".
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Tsuchiya-Ueno-Yamada's proof that sheaves of conformal blocks are locally free
I haven't thought about their paper in a while, but I think Oka's coherence theorem can be used on the dual module ... maybe?
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Trade-off between hypervolume and diameter of $d$-dimensional shapes having a hypercubic smallest bounding box
I cannot find a good reference with a proof, but some web searching suggests that if $\frac{\ell(X)}{\ell(C)} = d^{-1/2}$, then $X$ is contained in a body of constant width, and that volumes of such bodies are bounded above by that of the ball.
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Trade-off between hypervolume and diameter of $d$-dimensional shapes having a hypercubic smallest bounding box
For $X$ a $d$-ball, $\frac{\ell(X)}{\ell(C)} = d^{-1/2}$ and $\frac{V(X)}{V(C)} = \frac{\pi^{d/2}}{2^d\Gamma(d/2 + 1)}$. For large $d$, this is about $\frac{1}{\sqrt{\pi d}} (\pi e/2d)^{d/2}$
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