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Elliptic regularity in Sobolev spaces of negative order
It is true that a distribution T whose distributional laplacian is zero, $\Delta T = 0$, is actually $T = T_f$ for some smooth harmonic function $f$. What is S, sorry?
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what is the essence of the blowup technique and bubbling analysis in PDE or geometric analysis?
-1 While in some sense I would actually like to see a really good answer to this, I feel I must discourage this question on the grounds that (from FAQ): "MathOverflow is not the appropriate place to ask somebody to write an expository article for you" and that this is a little bit along the lines of (from how to ask): "what's the deal with algebraic geometry?". So to continue quoting from these advice pages: "The great answer you're hoping for doesn't exist because there isn't a precise question". But you could have a look at arxiv.org/abs/math/0304396
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Mathematical habits of thought and action which would be of use to non-mathematicians
+1. Yes!; well-articulated. I do this all the time when talking with my girlfriend and she nearly always argues that the extremity of my example makes it invalid and irrelevant to the discussion, whereas I see the extremity as potentially highlighting the salient points of the general case.
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Global index of convexity/concavity of a function
You seem to be asking for suggestions without much motivation. The feeling of MO is that questions should have concrete answers unless specifically asked as big list communit wiki questions. FAQ reading is recommended, and then perhaps think of a way to ask a single question with a question mark at the end. You will already have made progress if you can do this.
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Is the Lie algebra-valued curvature two-form on a principal bundle P the curvature of a vector bundle over P?
@Deane If you're referring to the bit I think you're referring to then I am either still very confused or have failed to get my point across again: I have a connection on $P$ = principal connection, in the sense of smooth $G$- covariant choice of horizontal subspaces. This is equivalent to a one-form on $P$ with values in the lie algebra and some other properties. Then I discuss the possibility of another, different, connection in a vectore bundle $E \to P$. I was not supposed to suggest $\omega$ actually is said connection in $E$.
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Is the Lie algebra-valued curvature two-form on a principal bundle P the curvature of a vector bundle over P?
@Spiro, Thanks for your comment. I think my trouble comes from the fact that from the point of view of the manifold $P$, $\omega$ is just a certain one-form with values in some vector space which happens to be $\mathfrak{g}$. I see how this object is a connection in the bundle $P \to M$ but what does this have to do with differrentiating $\mathfrak{g}$-valued forms on $P$? [@Jose Corrected, thanks.]
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basic measure theory question - measure on the natural numbers
Yes this seems to be precisely why finding such a measure will fail. If one wishes to weight all natural numbers equally, then only the trivial `zero measure' can assign a finite measure to an infinite set.
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Generalized Gauss-Green theorem
You are yet to say precisely what conclusions you want to hold. Exactly what theorem do you want to be true? And do you have reason to doubt the first statement on the PlanetMath page?
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