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For an embedded surface with unit normal vector , the surface gradient is . It projects the ambient gradient onto the tangent space and is independent of how is extended normally off the surface.
For constant injected power and ambient mass density , dimensional analysis gives . In a similarity solution, set , , and . The strong-shock values on the inner side of are and .
For standard Brownian motion started at zero, the strict first-passage times form a subordinator in the level parameter . The Strong Markov property gives independent increments and stationary increments; the strict inverse of the continuous running maximum has càdlàg paths. The Brownian first-passage Laplace transform gives Laplace exponent , so the process is strictly stable of index . Choosing the non-strict hitting times preserves each fixed-level law but generally loses right continuity at random levels, as in the fixed-level versus simultaneous Brownian passage-time equality.
A submodule is an essential submodule if it intersects every nonzero submodule of nontrivially. A nonzero module is a uniform module precisely when every nonzero submodule is an essential submodule.
The central infinite cyclic subgroup of the Integer Heisenberg group has quadratic subgroup distortion. The identity gives ambient length at most against intrinsic length . For general , take and write , , to obtain length at most . Conversely, a word of length in changes the first coordinate by at most and its central coordinate by at most , so is bounded below by a positive multiple of for . Negative exponents follow by inverses. Thus the ambient and intrinsic metrics have quadratic relative growth.
A real scalar field in the Adjoint representation can have a nonzero vacuum expectation value, leaving one massless and two massive gauge bosons. This breaking differs from electroweak symmetry breaking by a complex Higgs doublet.
Regression coefficient test power ignores nuisance coefficients by
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In a fixed full-rank normal linear model, the studentized estimator of one coefficient has a noncentral t-distribution with noncentrality equal to that coefficient divided by its standard deviation. The fitted and residual orthogonal projections of the Gaussian noise are independent. Therefore the statistical power of its exact Student's t-test does not depend on the other regression coefficients, with design and variance fixed.
If and are independent, then has the noncentral t-distribution with statistical degrees of freedom and noncentrality . It describes the test statistic of a Student's t-test under a shifted alternative hypothesis. At it reduces to the Student's t-distribution. This is different from adding a constant to a central Student t-distribution: here the shift is inside the random denominator. For a normal distribution sample tested against null hypothesis , the noncentrality is .
For independent and identically distributed random variables with and , the sample mean of tends to almost surely. Split into odd and even indexed products; each subsequence consists of independent and identically distributed random variables that are integrable random variables. Apply the strong law of large numbers separately.
For , rescale the string-frame metric by . The Weyl transformation of the Ricci scalar makes the coefficient of the Einstein-frame Ricci term independent of the dilaton. Indeed contributes factors from the volume, from the original coupling and from the Ricci term; their product is one. Derivative terms supply the transformed dilaton kinetic term. The two-dimensional case is excluded from this particular rescaling.
Stopped-martingale uniform integrability criterion by
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For an almost surely finite stopping time , if and , then with convergence in L1. Thus L1 convergence implies uniform integrability makes the stopped martingale uniformly integrable.
For , the basic set in the Stone-Čech compactification of the natural numbers is a clopen set, since its complement is . Distinct ultrafilters are separated by complementary basic sets. A basic cover with no finite subcover would give complements with the finite intersection property, whose generated filter on a set extends to an ultrafilter missing the entire cover. Thus the space is a compact Hausdorff space.
Every convergent sequence in the Stone-Čech compactification of the natural numbers is eventually constant. If distinct ultrafilters converged, isolate each from the other sequence terms using convergence and finitely many separating clopen sets. Finite disjointification gives disjoint . The union of the even-indexed then belongs exactly to the even-indexed ultrafilters, contradicting convergence of membership in a clopen set.
For continuous semimartingales, the Stratonovich integral is defined by , where the first term is an Itô integral and the correction is quadratic covariation. It obeys the ordinary chain rule and is the limit in probability of symmetric endpoint sums.
With for and for , the equation starting at zero has uniqueness in law but not pathwise uniqueness. For existence, take a Brownian motion and set ; the Lévy characterization of Brownian motion and associativity of stochastic integration give . Every solution has quadratic variation and hence the Brownian motion law. Both and are solutions driven by the same , since the time spent at zero is zero and away from zero. Using instead would allow the constant solution and invalidate this uniqueness-in-law example.
Stiefel–Whitney class of the underlying real bundle of a complex line by
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A complex line bundle has a canonically oriented underlying real vector bundle of rank two. Its first Stiefel–Whitney class vanishes, and its second Stiefel–Whitney class is the mod-two reduction of its First Chern class.
Sphere rotations as special-unitary Möbius transformations by
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Under the stereographic projection , rotations about the third axis have representatives , and rotations about the second axis have representativesThese belong to the special unitary group . Euler-angle generation of the special orthogonal group shows that every sphere rotation becomes a Möbius transformation represented in . Representatives and induce the same transformation.
The long step-trapped topographic Rossby wave has equal phase velocity and group velocity, . For an outer surface profile , cross-step matching gives . With , its weak solution is . This describes the slowly varying outer response; the fast adjustment region at the origin is unresolved.
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