Time average of harmonic power Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
For real harmonic fields with complex amplitudes and , their period-averaged product is .
Evanescent acoustic surface wave Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
A surface wave with phase speed below the bulk sound speed decays normally as , where .
Acoustic energy conservation Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
Linear acoustic fields obey
where
Acoustic velocity potential Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
For irrotational linear acoustic flow, , , and obeys the wave equation.
Homentropic pressure perturbation Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-29
For a homentropic reference state, first-order pressure and density perturbations satisfy , where is the sound speed.
Singular Legendre transform of a degree-one velocity Lagrangian Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-06
For ,
The momentum loses the speed, so the velocity cannot be recovered from and the ordinary inverse Legendre transform does not exist.
Global relation for the half-line free Schrodinger equation Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
For on , the half-line Fourier transform satisfies
Subtracting the relation at cancels the unknown Neumann datum. Fourier inversion of the resulting odd combination gives the solution in terms of the initial transform and the prescribed Dirichlet datum, with boundary kernel .
Zero-curvature condition Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
For and , compatibility is .
For the auxiliary equations and , equality of mixed derivatives gives . This is the compatibility condition for a Lax pair.
Isospectral Lax equation Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
For , the operator maps each eigenspace of into itself, so the spectrum is time-independent.
AKNS Lax pair for the nonlinear Schrodinger equation Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
For complex fields , the standard two-by-two AKNS pair has zero-curvature equations
The reductions and give the focusing and defocusing cubic nonlinear Schrödinger equations, respectively.
Airy equation Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
The Airy equation is the linear dispersive partial differential equation . Under the spatial Fourier transform, each mode evolves by multiplication by .
For positive time its fundamental solution is , connecting this evolution equation to the Airy function without identifying the two concepts.
Laurent theorem Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-06
An analytic function on an annulus has a unique locally uniformly convergent expansion
where is any positively oriented circle around in the annulus.
Dyck path Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
A Dyck path starts at , ends at , uses steps and , and never passes below the horizontal axis. Its semilength of a Dyck path is : there are up steps and down steps. The nonnegative height records a constraint throughout the journey, not just the endpoint. The Catalan number counts the Dyck paths of this size.
Soft thresholding Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
Soft thresholding maps to and is the proximal operator of the absolute-value penalty.
Square-root Lasso Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
The square-root Lasso uses the unsquared residual norm plus an penalty.
Dantzig selector Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-05
The Dantzig selector minimizes the coefficient norm subject to an bound on residual correlations.
Dark matter halo Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
A dark-matter halo is a gravitationally bound concentration of dark matter that hosts galaxies and larger structures.
Standard perturbation theory in cosmology Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
Standard perturbation theory expands the density contrast and velocity divergence of a pressureless irrotational fluid in powers of the linear density field.
Einstein-de Sitter universe Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
An Einstein-de Sitter universe is spatially flat and contains only pressureless matter. In conformal time, and .
Cosmological structure formation Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
Cosmological structure formation is the growth of primordial density perturbations into sheets, filaments, halos, galaxies, and clusters under gravity.

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