For a coordinate curve , the length between and is
where is a coefficient of the first fundamental form. Thus makes the two -directed sides of every coordinate rectangle equally long. Similarly,
so makes the two -directed sides equally long.
Conversely, suppose every pair of opposite sides has equal length. Fix . Equality of the first pair for every interval gives
The fundamental theorem of calculus implies that the continuous integrand vanishes, so is independent of . The same argument shows that is independent of . Hence the stated equal-length property is equivalent to .
The Cayley-Hamilton theorem states that every square matrix satisfies its characteristic polynomial: if , then .
For the proof, the adjugate identity gives
Write and compare coefficients. Multiplying the resulting recurrence by successive powers of and summing telescopically yields .
By polynomial division, with . Therefore by Cayley-Hamilton, while for every eigenvalue , since .
For the displayed matrix,
The remainder of modulo this polynomial has the form , because its values at and are both . The equations and give
Since , the requested entry is
A function is a convex function when
for every and .
Fix , , and . Since the value function is finite, choose with
For the convex combination , convexity of gives
so is feasible for the intermediate right-hand side. Convexity of then gives
Letting proves
so is convex.
A simple hypothesis specifies a single probability distribution. For a test with rejection region , its size of a statistical test is the rejection probability under the simple null hypothesis, while its statistical power against the simple alternative is the rejection probability under that alternative. The Neyman-Pearson lemma states that among tests of size at most , a test rejecting for the largest values of the likelihood ratio has greatest power, with boundary randomization if needed.
Here
which decreases with . The best test therefore rejects for . Under , , so size requires . Its power is
Thus reject exactly when .
Write . The vertical component of the balance gives hydrostatic pressure,
Its horizontal gradient is . The horizontal balance is consequently
Thus : the velocity is tangent to every level set of , so those contours are streamlines of the geostrophic flow.
Across a vertical section joining the contours and , an element of horizontal distance normal to the contours is , while . The volumetric flow rate is therefore
For dimensional analysis, , and , so the result has dimension , exactly that of a volume flux.
For a time-independent current, the Maxwell equations reduce to magnetostatics:
Write using a vector potential and choose the Coulomb gauge . The vector identity for the curl of a curl gives the Poisson equation
The free-space Green function therefore gives
Taking the curl with respect to , moving it under the integral, and using gives the Biot-Savart law
Along a curve , the chain rule gives
Together with the second-order partial differential equation, these form a linear system for whose coefficient matrix is
A characteristic curve is precisely one along which this system is singular, equivalently where the principal symbol vanishes on a normal covector. Taking the determinant yields

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