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Increasing edge resistances, including deleting edges, cannot decrease effective resistance. Decreasing resistances or identifying vertices cannot increase effective resistance. These statements also follow from the Thomson principle.
The effective resistance to infinity is the limit of the effective resistance from a fixed vertex to the wired complement of increasing finite sets. It is finite exactly when the finite-energy flow criterion for transience holds.
For bounded entropy solutions of the same scalar law, satisfies the displayed distributional inequality, with initial value in its test-function form. The doubling of variables for scalar conservation laws, local translation continuity and the averaged initial trace of an entropy solution prove it. Its significance is comparison between two solutions rather than an inequality against a constant state.
For chosen simple roots, the corresponding coroots are the simple coroots. They form the simple system of the dual root system. The fundamental weights are defined by , so pairings with simple coroots record coordinates in the fundamental-weight basis.
In the irreducible sl2 Lie algebra module , use , with . The Lie-invariant bilinear form is nondegenerate: its anti-diagonal is nonzero. Invariance follows from , and . Its transpose equals , so it is a symmetric bilinear form when is an even number, and an alternating bilinear form when is an odd integer. The Weyl complete reducibility theorem gives a nondegenerate invariant form on any finite-dimensional module by taking the orthogonal direct sum of these forms.
A canonical divisor on a smooth integral variety is the Cartier divisor of a nonzero rational top-degree differential form; . Its linear-equivalence class is independent of the chosen form. The plurigenus is the dimension of the space of sections of a positive tensor power of this bundle.
On a polydisc, for . A Poincaré lemma primitive for a closed pure-type form can be modified by exact terms until only bidegrees and remain. The Dolbeault-Poincaré lemma and conjugate Dolbeault-Poincaré lemma then make the original form -exact.
For a compact Kähler manifold, the natural map is an isomorphism. The Kähler Laplacian identity makes the harmonic representative of every Dolbeault cohomology class -closed, giving surjectivity, and the ddbar lemma gives injectivity.
For , over the complex numbers,By Young's rule, the multiplicity is the Kostka number for content . A semistandard Young tableau on just the entries has at most two rows. For shape , every lower entry is and every entry above it is ; the remaining top row is uniquely fixed by the content. Such a filling exists precisely for . Thus each displayed Specht module occurs once. A zero second part is omitted.
Let be the multiplicity of in the complex Young permutation module . For and ,Here means adding one cell, and zero parts are omitted. Equal row lengths contribute separately on the right. Restrict to and separate the tabloid orbits by the row containing to obtain the right side. Decompose into irreducibles and use the restriction branching rule for a symmetric group to obtain the left side. Equating multiplicities proves the formula.
For the C2 root system with its first simple root short, the irreducible highest-weight representation of highest weight , where , has dimension
For the G2 root system with short and long, the fundamental weights are and . The positive coroots, relative to the simple coroots, have coordinates . The Weyl dimension formula therefore gives, for nonnegative integers ,The denominator is the product of the pairings of the Weyl vector with those coroots. The dimensions at are seven, fourteen and twenty-seven.
With thermal diffusivity , a Fourier mode of angular wavenumber decays at rate . To avoid confusing this with thermal conductivity, use and angular wavenumber below: the same rate is , with units .
Consider an insulated bar with constant thermal diffusivity, no sources and no heat flux through either end or the sides. An original initial temperature profile and its exact evolution areThe cosine has zero temperature gradient at both ends, satisfying the insulated Neumann boundary conditions. Its spatial mean is zero, so conservation of energy leaves the mean temperature unchanged while the nonuniform part disappears. A short derivation substitutes into the heat equation: the second spatial derivative supplies , hence . The exponential decay time is ; doubling angular wavenumber quarters this time. If cycles-per-length spatial frequency is used instead, and the rate is .
Write and for the numbers of raising and lowering steps of color available from a vertex of a crystal basis. One convention for the tensor product of crystals isThe raising operator uses the first factor for and the second otherwise. The different strictness makes raising and lowering inverse along every edge. An edge is absent if the chosen Kashiwara operator vanishes. Stating the convention is essential when identifying the highest-weight vectors as ordered tensor vertices.
Symmetric trace-free square of the defining orthogonal representation by
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For the defining real representation of , the symmetric square splits as a scalar trace plus symmetric trace-free tensors: . The trace projection is , so the second summand has dimension .
For the trace-free summand is an irreducible real group representation. To see this, diagonalize a nonzero symmetric trace-free matrix in a nonzero invariant subspace. Two diagonal entries differ. Infinitesimal rotation in their plane yields a nonzero symmetric off-diagonal matrix; rotations carry it to every coordinate pair, and a rotation through produces a difference of two diagonal entries. These off-diagonal matrices and diagonal differences span all symmetric trace-free matrices, so the invariant subspace is the whole summand. For , its dimension is 299, the third-level nontrivial multiplet of the lowest levels of a fully transverse ND bosonic string.
For a smooth -dimensional variety over a field, its canonical line bundle is . It is the bundle of top-degree algebraic differential forms. A nonzero rational section defines a canonical divisor of a smooth variety. This algebraic definition works in arbitrary characteristic and is distinct from restricting the analytic canonical-bundle definition to complex manifolds.
Integrality of the generic fibre of an affine dominant morphism by
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For an injective ring homomorphism between nonzero integral domains , the scheme-theoretic fibre over the generic point of is with . Localization at these nonzero elements is a nonzero integral domain, so the generic fibre is a nonempty integral scheme. A surjective morphism between these affine schemes necessarily gives an injective ring map: a prime above contains its kernel.
Equal-time two-point function of a de Sitter scalar by
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For an exactly massless minimally coupled scalar field on flat-slicing de Sitter spacetime with constant , use natural units and neglect its metric backreaction. With and the Bunch-Davies vacuum, its canonical mode isWith power spectrum convention , taking the squared mode amplitude givesThe constant part is the frozen contribution to a de Sitter scalar spectrum; the remaining part is the subhorizon vacuum contribution to a de Sitter scalar spectrum. A merely light but nonzero mass changes the exact mode equation, so the displayed massless solution is then an approximation rather than an exact identity. Nonminimal curvature coupling also changes it.
The massless infinite-volume two-point correlation function has an infrared divergence. A finite-volume or finite-duration infrared prescription is needed, and coincident products require ultraviolet regulation or smearing. A finite spectrum at each fixed nonzero does not by itself make the all-mode equal-position integral finite.
In an irreducible root system with two root lengths, a short root has the smaller length with respect to a Weyl group invariant inner product.
In an irreducible root system with two root lengths, a long root has the larger length with respect to a Weyl group invariant inner product.
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