Starting from , gradient descent repeatedly computes the gradient and updates
stopping when the gradient norm, step, or objective decrease is sufficiently small.
The Hessian bounds say that is -strongly convex and has -smooth gradient. With ,
Thus the iteration count is
convergence becomes slower linearly with the condition number .
For
the Hessian matrix is , so
Take
Then
whose Hessian is and whose condition number is .
The Rao-Blackwell theorem says that if is an estimator with finite second moment and is a sufficient statistic, then
has the same expectation as and satisfies
with equality only when is already a function of almost surely.
Here is unbiased because
Conditional on , every weak composition of has the same probability . There are
such compositions. For , those with correspond to weak compositions of into parts, of which there are
The Rao-Blackwell estimator is therefore
For and , is not determined by ; for example, conditional on , the sole failure can occur in any coordinate. The variance inequality is consequently strict:
Let the columns of be . The Gram-Schmidt process gives
Next,
so
For the final column,
and
Thus and . The reduced QR decomposition is
The columns of are orthonormal, and direct multiplication gives .
For
the Euler-Lagrange equation is
Here this becomes
Because the forcing is resonant with the complementary solution, a particular integral is . Hence
and
The Neumann boundary conditions give
Thus
The Taylor series of the complex sine is
Therefore, for ,
and the right side defines a holomorphic function at with value . Thus the apparent singularity is a removable singularity.
The resulting power series is
The ratio test shows convergence for every , so its radius of convergence is
A unit-speed curve on a smooth embedded surface is a geodesic exactly when its acceleration is normal to the surface, equivalently when its tangential acceleration vanishes.
Every unit-speed geodesic on the cylinder through has the form
Indeed, unrolling the cylinder to its universal cover turns these curves into straight lines. Directly,
which is parallel to the cylinder's radial normal vector, verifying the geodesic characterization. Such a geodesic is closed exactly when ; its image is then the horizontal circle .
Yes. In polar coordinates on , use the Riemannian metric
The coordinate identifies this surface isometrically with the flat cylinder . Through each point, the circle is a closed geodesic, and every other geodesic has nonzero linear motion in and is not closed. Thus every point lies on a unique closed geodesic.

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