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Do compact complex manifolds fall into countably many families?
Thank you for the "nitpicks"! I just edited the question to make conventions explicit.
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Do compact complex manifolds fall into countably many families?
In response to the comments, I am making my conventions on manifolds explicit.
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Do compact complex manifolds fall into countably many families?
In the algebraic context, the answer is yes, even without properness. For projective varieties, one could use the theory of the Hilbert scheme. But there is an easier argument that applies to all schemes of finite type over $\mathbf{C}$: enumerate finitely generated field extensions of $\mathbf{Q}$ up to isomorphism, enumerate all schemes of finite type over these, and spread out each one to a family over an integral $\mathbf{Q}$-variety.
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Do compact complex manifolds fall into countably many families?
More generally, one could ask whether there exist countably many proper morphisms of complex analytic spaces such that every compact complex analytic space appears as a fiber in at least one of the families?
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Intuition for the last step in Serre's proof of the three-squares theorem
For some recent papers related to the work of Aubry and successors, see Clark, Euclidean quadratic forms and ADC forms: I. Acta Arith. 154 (2012), no. 2, 137–159; Clark & Jagy, Euclidean quadratic forms and ADC forms II: integral forms. Acta Arith. 164 (2014), no. 3, 265–308; and Dacar, Euclidean quadratic forms are ADC forms: a short proof, arxiv.org/abs/1310.2093
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Intuition for the last step in Serre's proof of the three-squares theorem
The earlier proof of the last claim was not quite complete since it was assuming den(xx')=den(x)den(x'). Should be fixed now.
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A natural way of thinking of the definition of an Artin $L$-function?
@Jonah: Your link to "Feynmann's [sic] heuristic derivation of Heron's formula" points to a heuristic derivation whose connection to Feynman is fictional.
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