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Robert Furber
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Infinite-dimensional classical Lie algebras
For what it's worth, $F^\infty$ cannot be complete in any metric, by the Baire category theorem. (It is the union of countably many finite-dimensional subspaces, which are closed sets of empty interior).
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Characterizations of infinite compact Abelian groups and probability spaces based on the forcing notion they give
I don't know enough about forcing to know how products of random real forcings of different cardinals differ from ordinary random real forcing.
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Characterizations of infinite compact Abelian groups and probability spaces based on the forcing notion they give
@MohammadGolshani The measure algebras of probability spaces are not necessarily Maharam homogeneous. They are countable products of Maharam homogeneous ones. This is described in Maraham's article, Theorems 1 and 2: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1078424 Fremlin's version is 332B.
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Examples of common false beliefs in mathematics
I particularly like Grothendieck's version of this. He proves that unconditional convergence is the same as absolute convergence for a locally convex space if and only if it is nuclear, i.e. every continuous linear map to a normed space is a nuclear map. The falsity of this belief then follows from the fact that a nuclear normed space is finite dimensional.
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Characterizations of infinite compact Abelian groups and probability spaces based on the forcing notion they give
In case this is not commonly known, the weight $w(X)$ of a topological space $X$ is the smallest cardinality of a base for the topology.
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Characterizations of infinite compact Abelian groups and probability spaces based on the forcing notion they give
@YCor The Haar measure on a compact group can be taken to be a probability measure, so Borel sets modulo ~ is a $\sigma$-complete Boolean algebra with the c.c.c., and therefore a complete Boolean algebra.
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Characterizations of infinite compact Abelian groups and probability spaces based on the forcing notion they give
@MohammadGolshani This poster is saying that the complete Boolean algebra you get from the measure algebra (i.e. Borel sets modulo nullsets) of $G$ is isomorphic to the measure algebra of $2^{w(G)}$, with its usual coin-flipping measure. This is the complete Boolean algebra for adding $w(G)$ random reals. A good reference for the statements I have just made is Fremlin's Measure Theory, volume 3. The wikipedia article on Maharam's theorem is not so good, I've been meaning to fix it when I have the time.
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A definition of topology using monads (a.k.a. halos)
@DenisNardin The condition is given in Bourbaki's General Topology, Chapter 1, section 1.2 and called $\mathrm{V}_\mathrm{IV}$. It is that if $V$ is a neighbourhood of $x$, there exists a neighbourhood $W$ of $x$ such that for all $y \in W$, $V$ is a neighbourhood of $y$.
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What is the name for a set endowed with a Lipschitz structure?
Is there anything to stop us from just calling it a "Lipschitz space"?
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What are the adjunctions that generate the Giry Monad?
How does this equivalence work? The obvious one does not seem to do, for the following reason: Every $\mathcal{G}$ algebra admits $\sigma$-convex combinations, but not every convex space does. For example, the usual structure of a convex space on $\mathbb{R}$ cannot be extended to $\sigma$-convex combinations, by a variation of the argument $0 = (1 - 1) + (1 - 1) + ... = 1 - (1 - 1) - (1 - 1) + ... = 1$ using $\sigma$-convex combinations to express the sums. So we cannot obtain the usual convex structure on $\mathbb{R}$ as the underlying convex space of a $\mathcal{G}$-algebra.
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Which popular games have been studied mathematically?
@SamHopkins I suspect you mean "critical" rather than "crucial". Although some senses of these words overlap in meaning, I have never heard of "crucial" being used in percolation theory.
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Dimension of vector spaces as a measure
I think you are looking for the notion of a state on an orthomodular lattice. But this is not defined in quite this way, probably because of the "common false belief" mentioned by Pietro Majer. Instead it is that $\mu(A \cup B) = \mu(A) + \mu(B)$ if $A \cap B = \bot$.
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History of "natural transformations"
Functors are defined on the second page of that paper (though only for the category of groups).
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Nonequivalent definitions in Mathematics
I think the language used in the theory of locally compact spaces (where we talk about compact neighbourhoods) and the theory of locally convex vector spaces (where we make statements like "the polar of an equicontinuous set is a neighbourhood of 0") would become very awkward if neighbourhood could only be used to mean "open neighbourhood". I can't think of an opposing situation in which it is beneficial to have "neighbourhood" mean "open neighbourhood".
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