Mackey restriction formula Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-11-05
For and a -representation ,
where .
To prove the formula, write induction as and decompose the -bimodule
For , the map
is a well-defined -equivariant isomorphism. Taking the direct sum over the double cosets proves the result.
Frobenius reciprocity Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
For , an -representation , and a -representation ,
Equivalently, induction and restriction are adjoint for character inner products.
Tensor identity for induced representations Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-11-05
For a -representation and an -representation ,
On group-algebra tensors the isomorphism sends to .
Let be abelian and let a linear character of have stabilizer exactly under conjugation by . Then is irreducible of degree . Its value is zero outside , while on it is the sum of the characters in the -orbit of .
Character formula for an induced representation Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-11-05
Let be finite groups, and let be the character of a complex representation of . The induced representation has character
Only conjugates of lying in contribute. In particular, the value is zero if the conjugacy class of misses .
To derive the formula, realize the induced space as one copy of the original vector space for each left coset . The action of permutes these copies. Only fixed cosets contribute to its trace, and is equivalent to . The contribution of that copy is .
Replacing the coset representatives by all counts each coset times. The contribution is unchanged because a character is constant on conjugacy classes in . Dividing by proves the result. At , it gives the expected dimension .
Cofinite index set Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
The cofinite index set contains codes whose enumerable language has finite complement.
Infinite-domain index set Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
For an effective enumeration of unary partial computable functions,
is an index set.
Extensional property of programs Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
An extensional program property gives identical answers to all codes computing the same object.
Tail sigma-algebra Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
For a sequence of random variables on a probability space , define
The decreasing sigma-algebras are generated by the listed random variables. Their intersection consists of events expressible after discarding every finite prefix. No independence is required.[ref]
The point is to distinguish a long observation record from a property of an infinite sequence. The event of seeing infinitely many heads and the event that sample means converge survive any finite change, while an exact first-head time does not. Kolmogorov's zero–one law adds the striking conclusion that under independence each tail event has probability zero or one; the tail sigma-algebra itself can still contain many nonempty sets.
Independence extended from generating pi-systems Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-11-05
If two pi-systems satisfy the probability factorization pairwise, their generated sigma-algebras are independent. For one event in the first family, the events in the second sigma-algebra satisfying the factorization form a Dynkin system; apply Dynkin lemma, then repeat with the roles reversed.
Independent events Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-31
Events are mutually independent when
for every nonempty index subset . For two events and , this is equivalent to : learning whether occurred does not change the chance of .
For independent uniform dice, the events that the first result is an even integer and that the second result is an even integer each have probability ; their intersection has probability . In contrast, "first result is an even integer" and "first result is an odd integer" are disjoint events of positive probability, so they cannot be independent events. Learning one occurred completely rules out the other.
Pairwise independence is weaker than mutual independence. Take two independent fair bits . The three events , , and each have probability and every pair has intersection probability . Their triple intersection is the single outcome , of probability rather than . Checking pairs alone misses the joint constraint.
Greedy independent-set bound Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
Every finite graph of maximum degree at most has an independent set of size at least . Greedily choose a vertex and delete its closed neighbourhood.
Unipotent representation Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-11-05
In the operator sense, a finite-dimensional group representation is unipotent when every represented element is a unipotent matrix: for each , is a nilpotent endomorphism. This terminology is distinct from the special unipotent characters in the representation theory of finite groups of Lie type.
For example, the generator of can act on a two-dimensional vector space by . Then , and the first coordinate line gives a nonsplit extension of representations of the trivial representation by itself. Over a field of characteristic zero, a unipotent matrix of finite order is the identity, because its minimal polynomial divides both a power of and the separable polynomial . Thus every unipotent group representation of a finite group is trivial in characteristic zero; in characteristic , the displayed instead gives a nontrivial group representation of .
Nonsplit extension of representations Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
A nonsplit extension contains an invariant subrepresentation with no invariant complementary subspace.
Effective sample size of importance sampling Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
For normalized importance weights , the standard effective sample size is .
Self-normalized importance sampling Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
For an unnormalized target density, self-normalized importance sampling uses weights and estimates expectations by . Resampling a point with probability proportional to produces the associated weighted empirical distribution.
Isothermal coordinates Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
Coordinates on an immersed surface are isothermal when the first fundamental form is for a positive function .
Smooth embedding Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
A smooth embedding is an injective immersion that is a homeomorphism onto its image with the subspace topology.
This is the differentiable specialization of an embedding, with an injective differential in addition to its topological embedding property.
Matsubara frequency Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-11-05
Matsubara frequencies are the discrete Fourier frequencies on an imaginary time thermal interval. With and , periodic bosonic fields have , while antiperiodic fermionic fields have .
Their difference follows from requiring the Fourier phase to return with the appropriate sign after one thermal period. The bosonic zero mode can dominate long-distance finite-temperature fluctuations, whereas fermions have no zero Matsubara mode in the ordinary thermal trace. These are labels in an imaginary time calculation, not discrete frequencies of an externally applied real-time drive. Extracting a real-frequency response requires the corresponding analytic continuation and spectral information.

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