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The photon chemical potential is zero for ordinary blackbody radiation in full thermal equilibrium with matter when photon emission and photon absorption freely adjust the number of photons. Its occupation law is thenA conserved-particle Bose-Einstein distribution instead contains $\hslash \omega -\mu$ in the exponential. The distinction concerns the allowed exchanges, rather than the fact that the particles are bosons. Scattering can redistribute photon energies without imposing the same number-changing equilibrium condition.

A thermalized photon gas in an optical cavity can have an effective nonzero chemical potential when an excitation reservoir controls its population. In a dye-filled curved-mirror optical cavity, repeated absorption and re-emission equilibrate transverse mode occupations, while pumped molecular excitations control the mean population. The reported Bose-Einstein condensation of photons therefore differs from cooling unconstrained blackbody radiation, where photons simply disappear into the walls. ^[ref]

The Chebyshev equation has self-adjoint formFor $U_n=T_n^{\prime }$, differentiation givesThe respective orthogonality weights are $(1-x^2{)}^{-1/2}$ and $(1-x^2{)}^{1/2}$.

Every square matrix over an algebraically closed field is similar to an upper-triangular matrix. Choose an eigenvector, extend it to a basis, and apply induction to the induced lower-right block.

For real matrices $A,B$, $p(t)=\det (A+tB)$ is a real polynomial. If $p(i)\ne 0$, it is not the zero polynomial, so some real $\lambda$ satisfies $p(\lambda )\ne 0$.

The expansion $\log (\sin x/x)=-x^2/6+O(x^4)$ converts products of small sinc factors into Gaussian characteristic-function limits.

The method of characteristics converts a first-order partial differential equation into ordinary differential equations along characteristic curves. Forsolve $\dot{X}=b(t,X)$, $X(0)=\alpha$, and $\dot{U}=h(t,X,U)$, $U(0)=g(\alpha )$. The chain rule identifies $U(t,\alpha )=u(t,X(t,\alpha ))$. If the characteristic flow map is invertible, it reconstructs the solution by $u(t,x)=U(t,X_t^{-1}(x))$. This turns spatial propagation and the evolution of the carried value into separate calculations.^[ref]

For $u_t+t{u}_x=0$, the characteristic curves are $X(t,\alpha )=\alpha +t^2/2$ and $U=g(\alpha )$, so $u(t,x)=g(x-t^2/2)$. Substitution verifies both the partial differential equation and the initial condition. More generally, a quasilinear partial differential equation allows $b$ to depend on $U$, so the two ordinary differential equations become coupled. Noncharacteristic Cauchy data and a nonzero projection Jacobian determinant give local reconstruction; characteristic crossing can destroy it even while the lifted trajectories remain smooth.

The characteristic flow map $Z_{s,t}(x)$ is the point reached at time $t$ by the characteristic curve that passes through $x$ at time $s$. Whenever the flow is invertible, transport solutions pull their initial data back by $Z_{0,t}^{-1}$.

The character space ${\Phi }_A$ is the set of all characters on $A$.

Let $G\times G$ act on $\mathbb{C}G$ by $(g,h)x=gx{h}^{-1}$. Its character is zero unless $g$ and $h$ are conjugate, in which case it equals $|C_G(g)|$. Character column orthogonality gives the same character forwhere the $V_i$ run through the irreducible complex representations. Maschke's theorem therefore gives an isomorphism of the two representations.

A forcing order has the countable chain condition when every antichain in a forcing order is countable. Such forcing preserves cardinals and cofinalities at least ${\aleph }_1$.

A degreewise short exact sequence $0\to A\to B\to C\to 0$ of chain complexes induces a long exact sequence of homology groups through the connecting homomorphisms.

A chain map $f:C\to C^{\prime }$ is a family $f_i:C_i\to C_i^{\prime }$ satisfying $d_i^{\prime }{f}_i=f_{i-1}{d}_i$.

In a based free chain group, write a chain uniquely as a finite sumThe scalars $a_{\sigma }$ are its chain coefficients relative to the chosen basis. For simplicial chains, the basis consists of chosen oriented simplexes; reversing an orientation of a simplex changes its coefficient's sign. For singular chains, the basis elements are singular simplices.

For example, $3[v_0{v}_1]-2[v_1{v}_2]$ has edge coefficients $3$ and $-2$. Applying the boundary operator gives $-3[v_0]+5[v_1]-2[v_2]$. A general chain complex may contain nonfree modules, so a simplex-basis expansion is an additional feature of these models, rather than part of the abstract definition of a chain complex.

An element of a chain group is a boundary when it is the image of a higher-degree element under the boundary operator. Since ${\partial }^2=0$, every boundary is a chain cycle. Thus $H_n(C)=Z_n(C)/B_n(C)$, and a chain cycle represents zero in homology exactly when it is a boundary.

An element of a chain group is a cycle when its boundary operator kills it. A cycle need not itself be a chain boundary. The homology group $H_n(C)$ identifies cycles whose difference is a chain boundary.

For a CW complex, $C_n^{\mathrm{cell}}(X)=H_n(X^n,X^{n-1})$ is freely generated by the oriented $n$-cells. Connecting maps of skeleton pairs define its differential.

For independent identically distributed random vectors $Z_i$ with mean $\mu$ and finite covariance matrix $V$,

For independent identically distributed $Z_i$ with mean zero and variance one,The numerator obeys the Central limit theorem, the denominator converges almost surely to one by the strong law, and Slutsky's theorem combines them.

A forcing order is sigma-centered when it is the union of countably many centered subsets. Every sigma-centered forcing has the countable chain condition for forcing.

For three ordered angular positions $q_1,q_2,q_3$, define consecutive gapsand the collective angle $\Phi =(q_1+q_2+q_3)/3$. Then $\alpha +\beta +\gamma =2\pi$. For three equal masses on a circle of radius $r$,Thus the ignorable coordinate $\Phi$ decouples from the relative gap dynamics whenever the potential depends only on the gaps.