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A linear length-$n$ cyclic code is a subspace closed under cyclic coordinate shifts. Identify a word with its polynomial modulo $X^n-1$; multiplying by $X$ performs the shift. Thus a cyclic code is an ideal of ${\mathbb{F}}_q[X]/(X^n-1)$. Its preimage in the polynomial ring is an ideal containing $X^n-1$, so the Euclidean algorithm gives a unique monic generator $g$ dividing $X^n-1$. The generator polynomial of a cyclic code is $g$ and the check polynomial of a cyclic code is $h=(X^n-1)/g$; a word lies in the code exactly when $hc\equiv 0(\mathrm{mod}{X}^n-1)$.

For the binary length-seven code, the given $h$ factors withThis cubic has no binary root and is irreducible. Let $\alpha$ be its root in ${\mathbb{F}}_8$. Since the nonzero multiplicative group has prime order seven and $\alpha \ne 1$, its seven powers enumerate all nonzero elements. The condition $c(\alpha )=0$ gives a three-row binary parity-check matrix whose columns are precisely the seven nonzero vectors of ${\mathbb{F}}_2^3$. This is Hamming's code in a cyclic coordinate order. It has dimension four, and minimum distance three: no one or two distinct nonzero columns sum to zero, while $g$ itself has weight three. Its sixteen radius-one balls have total size $16(1+7)=128$, confirming the original perfect Hamming code.

It actually contains its dual code in this coordinate order. Each parity-check row has four ones, and any two distinct rows have two simultaneous ones, so $H{H}^T=0$ over ${\mathbb{F}}_2$. The row space $C^{\perp }$ therefore lies in $\ker H=C$. Equivalently the dual generator is the reciprocal check polynomialwhich is divisible by $g$. Hence there is a three-dimensional subcode equal to the dual, and in any other coordinate order it is equivalent to that dual.

Write a reduced positive definite binary quadratic form as $[a,b,c]=a{x}^2+bxy+c{y}^2$, with $|b|\le a\le c$ and $b\ge 0$ on the reduction boundaries. Since $4ac-b^2=20$, reduction gives $3a^2\le 20$, so $a=1$ or two. The middle coefficient is even. For $a=1$, only $b=0$ is possible, yielding $c=5$. For $a=2$, $b=0$ would give a noninteger $c$, while $b=\pm 2$ gives $c=3$; the boundary convention selects $b=2$. Thus the two reduced forms are

A positive odd integer $n$ is properly represented by some integer form of discriminant $d$ exactly when $b^2\equiv d(\mathrm{mod}4n)$ has a solution. For a specified proper equivalence class, the more precise criterion is that $[n,b,(b^2-d)/(4n)]$ belong to that class for some such $b$. Indeed, a primitive representing vector extends to an $S{L}_2(\mathbb{Z})$ basis change, making the leading coefficient $n$; conversely that form represents $n$ at the primitive vector $(1,0)$.

For primes $p\nmid 10$, the existence criterion is $(-20/p)=1$, because the congruence modulo four is compatible with an even middle coefficient. Quadratic reciprocity gives $(-20/p)=(-1/p)(p/5)$, so the split possibilities are $p\equiv 1,3,7,9(\mathrm{mod}20)$. Any proper representing form reduces to one of the two listed forms. Odd values of $x^2+5y^2$ are one modulo four; odd values of $2x^2+2xy+3y^2$ require odd $y$ and are three modulo four. These distinguish the two classes. ConsequentlyA representation of a prime is automatically proper: a common divisor of $x,y$ would have its square divide $p$.

The components in Euler equations for a torque-free rigid body are evaluated in the body-fixed principal-axis frame, with $L_i=I_i{\omega }_i$. In an inertial space frame the angular momentum vector is constant; its components in the rotating body frame need not be.

Assume $\Omega \ne 0$ and distinct positive principal moments of inertia. Write $\omega =(\Omega +{\delta }_1,{\delta }_2,{\delta }_3)$. To first order,soThe coefficient is positive when $I_1$ lies between the other moments, giving an exponentially growing mode and instability. When $I_1$ is an extreme moment, it is negative and the transverse perturbations oscillate.

To establish actual nonlinear Lyapunov stability in the latter case, use the conserved kinetic energy $E=\frac{1}{2}\sum I_j{\omega }_j^2$ and squared angular momentum $L^2=\sum I_j^2{\omega }_j^2$. Their combination isFor an extreme $I_1$ its two coefficients have the same sign. Conservation controls both transverse components by their initially small values, while conservation of $E$ controls ${\omega }_1^2$ near ${\Omega }^2$. Continuity preserves its initial sign for sufficiently small perturbations. Thus nonzero steady rotation is stable exactly about the largest or smallest principal moment, the intermediate axis theorem. It is not asymptotically stable, since energy is conserved. If $\Omega =0$, energy makes the zero angular-velocity state stable for every ordering; the nonzero-rotation assumption is essential to the stated equivalence.

Fix a Hankel contour with a positive-radius circle around zero and a branch $-\pi <\arg t<\pi$, traversing the lower bank inwards and the upper bank outwards. Write its numerator as $I(z)={\int }_H{t}^{z-1}{e}^{t}dt$. For fixed circle radius, $I$ is an entire function of $z$: the finite contour pieces avoid zero, and the tails converge uniformly on compact $z$ sets by exponential decay, also after differentiation with respect to $z$.

At $z=-n$, the two straight-bank contributions cancel because $t^{-n-1}{e}^t$ is single-valued. The remaining circle is positively oriented, so the residue theorem and the exponential series giveSince $\sin (\pi z)=(-1{)}^n\pi (z+n)+O((z+n{)}^3)$, the quotient has the simple poleFor cancellation of positive-integer gamma singularities on a Hankel contour, at a positive integer $n$, the integrand $t^{n-1}{e}^t$ is entire and its bank contributions again cancel; its circular integral is zero. Hence $I(n)=0$. The numerator is analytic near $n$, while the denominator has a simple zero with nonzero derivative. Factoring $I(z)=(z-n)J(z)$ therefore cancels that zero, proving there is no pole at a positive integer using only this representation. Cancellation of the numerator, not merely the zero of the sine, decides the issue. One can also shrink the contour for $\Re z>0$, obtaining $I(z)=2i\sin (\pi z){\int }_0^{\infty }{u}^{z-1}{e}^{-u}du$ and hence the finite value $(n-1)!$.

A fixed point $x_0$ is Lyapunov stable if for every $\epsilon >0$ there is $\delta >0$ such that solutions starting within $\delta$ of $x_0$ stay within $\epsilon$ for all forward times. It has quasi-asymptotic stability if some neighborhood of $x_0$ consists of initial points whose solutions converge to $x_0$. Asymptotic stability requires both properties.

Choose the Lyapunov functionIt vanishes only at the origin, is positive elsewhere, and has compact sublevel sets. The vector field is polynomial, hence locally Lipschitz. Along a solution,A small sublevel set is forward invariant and can be fitted inside any prescribed neighborhood, proving Lyapunov stability; boundedness also prevents finite-time escape.

For attraction, a bounded forward solution has a nonempty compact limit set, and $V$ decreases to a limit. Every point in that limit set has that same $V$ value. Continuous dependence of solutions makes the limit set forward invariant, so $\dot{V}=0$ along every trajectory in it. Such a trajectory must have $x=0$ at all times. But then $\dot{x}=-y$, forcing $y=0$. Thus the only possible limit point is the origin, and every solution converges there. This verifies the invariant-set condition behind the LaSalle invariance principle, rather than incorrectly treating $\dot{V}$ as strictly negative at every nonzero point. The origin is therefore asymptotically stable, indeed globally attracting.