Ingoing Eddington-Finkelstein coordinates Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-18
The advanced coordinate puts the radial Schwarzschild metric into the form
which is regular at the future horizon.
These are the advanced, ingoing member of the Eddington-Finkelstein coordinates.
Perturbative derivation of Schwarzschild light deflection Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-18
Writing in and retaining first order in gives
The displacement of the outgoing zero is .
Tempered distribution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
Cyclic-center obstruction to a faithful irreducible representation Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-11-05
If a finite group has a faithful irreducible complex representation, every central element acts as a scalar by Schur lemma. Faithfulness embeds the centre into , and every finite subgroup of is cyclic. Hence the group centre must be cyclic.
Proof of Schur lemma Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-11-05
The kernel and image of an intertwiner are invariant subspaces. Irreducibility therefore makes a nonzero intertwiner injective and surjective. For an endomorphism of a finite-dimensional irreducible complex representation, choose an eigenvalue . The noninvertible intertwiner must be zero, so .
Ridout theorem Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-11-05
Let be an algebraic irrational number, let be a finite set of primes, and let . There are only finitely many reduced fractions whose denominator is S-smooth number and which satisfy
This is the denominator-restricted consequence of the finite-place Schmidt subspace theorem.
Basic sequence Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
Coordinate functional of a Schauder basis Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
The nth coordinate functional of a Schauder basis is the bounded linear functional .
Basis projection Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
The nth basis projection associated with a Schauder basis is
Bound-state pole of the scattering amplitude Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-11-05
After analytic continuation in momentum, a pole at with gives negative energy and spatial decay, and therefore represents a bound state.
Crystal scattering Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-11-05
In the Born approximation, scattering from identical atomic potentials translated to lattice sites factors into one atomic form factor times a finite sum of phases over the crystal sites.
Diffraction Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
Diffraction is interference produced when waves scatter from spatial structure. A periodic structure concentrates the scattered intensity at reciprocal-lattice conditions.
Elastic scattering Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-11-05
Elastic scattering preserves the total kinetic energy. For one particle scattered by a fixed target, the incoming and outgoing wavevectors therefore have equal magnitudes.
Momentum transfer Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-11-05
The momentum transfer in a scattering process is the difference between the incoming and outgoing wavevectors, commonly up to a sign convention and a factor of .
Hyperscaling relation Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-11-05
When the singular free energy in one correlation volume is of order one, . Hyperscaling can fail above the upper critical dimension because of a dangerously irrelevant coupling.
Scaling necessity for an Lp to Lq Fourier bound Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
If a nontrivial uniform estimate
holds for all integrable functions on , dilation by every forces
Thus must be the conjugate exponent of .
Scalar anisotropic stress Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
Scalar anisotropic stress is the trace-free scalar part of the spatial stress perturbation. Under a common convention it enters as .
Scalar velocity potential Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
The longitudinal velocity perturbation of a cosmological fluid can be represented by a scalar velocity potential through .
Synchronous gauge in cosmology Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
Synchronous gauge sets the lapse and shift perturbations to zero, . Its coordinates follow freely falling observers, but residual coordinate freedom produces gauge modes that must be distinguished from physical perturbations.
Hydrogen binding energy Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
For , the hydrogen binding energy is the rest-energy defect

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