Integral basis of the cubic field of discriminant minus 307 Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-11-05
The elementsform an integral basis. Relative to this basis, multiplication by has integer matrixThe basis discriminant is one quarter of the discriminant of , hence is the square-free integer .
Crossing lemma Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
If a simple graph has vertices and edges, every plane drawing has at leastcrossings. Apply the linear planar bound to the random induced subgraph obtained by retaining vertices independently with probability .
Number operator Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-11-05
The number operator counts oscillator quanta in a bosonic mode. For creation and annihilation operators with , it is and satisfies
The number states obey , . For the quantum harmonic oscillator, , so counting quanta also determines the energy. Positivity follows from on the operator domain. [ref]
An expectation value need not be a possible sharp count. In , , but a quantum measurement of gives only or , each with probability one half. For a general quantum field, a particle number operator also depends on the chosen modes and need not commute with an interacting Hamiltonian.
Stratified Cox model Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-28
A stratified Cox model gives each stratum its own baseline hazard while sharing regression coefficients.
Cox partial likelihood Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-11-05
In a Cox proportional-hazards model, . At distinct event times , let identify the event subject and let be the risk set immediately before . With covariates evaluated just before the event, the untied Cox partial likelihood isEach ratio is the conditional probability that the next single failure belongs to the observed subject, given its event time and current risk set. Substituting the hazards into this ratio cancels their common baseline hazard . With three subjects whose scalar covariates are , the probability that the third subject fails next is .
A risk set includes subjects who have entered observation and remain event-free and uncensored at that instant; delayed entry and time-dependent covariates must be represented accordingly. The usual inference requires appropriate independent censoring conditional on the modeled information. Tied recorded event times require a specified treatment, such as the Breslow approximation for tied event times, the Efron approximation for tied event times, or an exact tied-set conditional likelihood for its discrete-time model. These need not give the same objective as an arbitrarily ordered sequence of failures.[ref]
Covering space action Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
An action of on is a covering space action when every point has a neighbourhood disjoint from for every nonidentity . The quotient map is then locally a covering map, although without stronger properness assumptions its quotient need not be Hausdorff.
Lifting criterion for a covering space Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
Path lifting theorem Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
Classification of connected covering spaces Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-11-05
Let be path-connected, locally path-connected and semilocally simply connected, with base point and fundamental group . Isomorphism classes of based connected covering spaces correspond bijectively to subgroups , byForgetting replaces individual subgroups by their conjugacy classes. The number of sheets is the index of a subgroup . A covering space is a regular covering exactly when is a normal subgroup; then its deck transformation group is . In general its deck transformation group is , where is the normalizer.[ref]
For a circle, the subgroups give the -sheeted covering spaces for , while the trivial subgroup gives . All are regular coverings because is Abelian. The local hypotheses are part of the theorem: existence of a cover for every subgroup cannot simply be asserted for an arbitrary connected topological space.
Universal cover Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
A universal cover is a simply connected covering space. The universal cover of a cylinder is the plane, with the angular coordinate unwrapped to a real coordinate.
Core graph of a subgroup Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
The core of a based covering graph is the union of all reduced loops through its base vertex. A subgroup of a finitely generated free group is finitely generated exactly when its core graph is finite.
Schreier coset graph Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
For and a generating set , the Schreier coset graph has vertices and a directed -edge from to for every . For a free group, this is the covering graph associated with .
Freeze-out temperature and interaction strength Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
If an interaction-to-expansion ratio scales as , increasing raises the temperature at which the ratio drops through one.
Cosmic web Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-11-05
The cosmic web is the connected pattern of matter sheets, filaments and dense nodes surrounding cosmic voids. Collapse is generally anisotropic: a region can contract strongly in one direction before the others. The Zeldovich approximation makes this mechanism explicit through the principal directions of the initial deformation. Collapse along one, two or three directions gives the intuitive sequence of sheet, filament and compact concentration, although subsequent shell crossing and nonlinear dynamics complicate that picture.
Redshift preservation of a thermal photon spectrum Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
Cosmological time dilation Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
Observed time intervals from a comoving source are stretched by the same factor as photon wavelengths.
Matter-era transfer of a horizon-crossing amplitude Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
Horizon-crossing time across matter-radiation equality Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-11-05
The numerical prefactor in a horizon-crossing time depends on the chosen horizon scale. Let , , and . In a sharp radiation-to-matter transition model,Using the order-of-magnitude horizon size and setting the physical wavelength equal to it givesThese familiar powers describe radiation-era and matter-era scaling. For the particle horizon convention in cosmological horizon crossing, use with . The same piecewise model gives before equality and afterwards. Therefore the corresponding crossing times areBoth branches agree at equality. Explicitly retaining the particle horizon integral fixes the order-unity factors that the estimate omits.
Broken matter power spectrum from horizon entry Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
If primordial horizon-crossing perturbations satisfy , remain frozen during radiation domination, and grow as during matter domination, then
Flatness problem Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
In a decelerating expanding universe, grows, so its small present value requires extremely fine-tuned early initial data unless an earlier mechanism drives toward one.
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