Arzelà-Ascoli theorem Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
For a compact Hausdorff space , a subset of is relatively compact in the uniform norm exactly when it is equicontinuous and pointwise bounded. On a compact metric space, this says that every uniformly bounded equicontinuous sequence has a uniformly convergent subsequence.
Equatorial Rossby wave Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-11-05
An equatorial Rossby wave propagates westward and has a Gaussian-weighted Hermite-polynomial meridional structure.
Equatorial Kelvin wave Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-11-05
An equatorial Kelvin wave has zero meridional velocity, eastward phase propagation, and Gaussian meridional trapping.
Impact parameter Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-06
The impact parameter is the perpendicular distance between an incoming particle's asymptotic straight-line trajectory and the centre of a scattering potential. In central-force scattering it determines the deflection angle whenever the scattering map is single-valued.
Entropy density Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-11-05
For a homogeneous extensive system in thermodynamic equilibrium, the entropy density is entropy per physical volume, . The thermodynamic Euler relation giveswhere is energy density, is pressure, is chemical potential, is number density and is absolute temperature. Here denotes energy density, not mass density; in a relativistic application the energy convention must consistently include the rest-energy paired with the chemical potential.
With several conserved particle numbers, replace by . The Euler form assumes extensivity and negligible surface terms; it is not an automatic identity for a finite interacting system with appreciable boundary contributions. For a photon gas at equilibrium, and , yielding .
C-relevant pair of random variables Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
Entropic Balog-Szemerédi-Gowers theorem Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
For finitely supported random variables in an abelian group,To prove it, take two conditionally independent copies and of given . Since , entropy submodularity givesThe first two terms are at most . The last joint entropy isConsequently . Subtractingfrom this bound proves the theorem.
Entropic Ruzsa sum-difference inequality Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
Entropic Ruzsa triangle inequality Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
Conditional entropic Ruzsa distance Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
For finitely supported random variables, the conditional entropic Ruzsa distance isThus the two conditioning values are sampled independently. If only one variable is conditioned, write .
Heat capacity at constant pressure Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
For a fixed-composition closed system, the heat capacity at fixed pressure is , with enthalpy . Under the quasistatic process assumptions in heat capacity, only pressure-volume work is permitted, so gives . Thus supplied heat is , or within a single thermodynamic phase when is constant. For an ideal gas, the expansion work explains why this exceeds the required heat at fixed volume for the same temperature increase. Its per-unit-mass counterpart is specific heat capacity at constant pressure.
Enthalpy Maxwell relation Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25
Entanglement area law Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-11-05
An entanglement area law bounds a region's entanglement entropy by its boundary size rather than its volume, in a specified family of states and with a stated short-distance convention. For a lattice region , a typical form is with a constant independent of the region's linear size.
The physical intuition is that correlations contributing most strongly across the cut can be concentrated near its boundary. A generic highly entangled state need not satisfy this: independent Bell pairs joining many interior sites to the exterior can produce volume-scaling entropy. Tensor-network area-law bounds make the boundary counting explicit through the number of cut bonds. Area laws are therefore useful structural constraints, not automatic consequences of calling a state quantum or a Hamiltonian local.
Squared-loss empirical risk for linear prediction Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-29
Lane-Emden equation Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
The classical Lane-Emden equation is the dimensionless equationfor a spherically symmetric polytrope in three dimensions. The Generalized Lane-Emden equation extends it to arbitrary dimensions and to functions without radial symmetry.
Complete elliptic integral of the first kind Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-11-05
For real modulus , the complete elliptic integral of the first kind isThe substitution proves equivalence. Here is the modulus; a parameter convention instead writes . The endpoint value is , and increases without bound as .[ref]
NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions. §19.2(ii), definitions of F and complete K; §19.12, endpoint asymptotics
For a simple pendulum of length with angular amplitude , conservation of mechanical energy gives its periodUse in the quarter-period energy integral. The limit recovers the small-angle approximation . Near the inverted position , the logarithmic divergence of describes the long time spent near the unstable equilibrium.
Weierstrass elliptic function Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
For a period lattice , the Weierstrass elliptic function is the normally convergent lattice sumIt is an even elliptic function with a double pole of principal part and zero residue at every point of the period lattice.
Value multiplicity of an elliptic function Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
For any finite value , apply the argument principle to around a fundamental parallelogram whose boundary avoids zeros and poles. Periodicity cancels the opposite-edge integrals, so the number of solutions of equals the fixed number of poles of , counting multiplicities.
Jacobi elliptic sine Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-11-05
Near zero, the Jacobi elliptic sine is the inverse of the elliptic integral of the first kind:Choose both square roots with value one at zero. The inverse then has and derivative one there. Differentiation yieldsFor nondegenerate modulus , continuation gives a meromorphic doubly periodic elliptic function.
The excluded limits are meaningful: and . Their inverse integrals and differential equations verify these identities. These elementary limiting functions are not doubly periodic elliptic functions, so the nondegeneracy qualification cannot be dropped.[ref]
For real , its periods are generated by and , where . The limiting loss of a period is another way to understand degeneration to trigonometric or hyperbolic functions.
Nonconstant elliptic function has a pole Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
If an elliptic function had no poles, it would be entire. It is bounded on the closure of a fundamental parallelogram, and periodicity then makes it bounded on the whole complex plane. The Liouville theorem would make it constant. Thus every nonconstant elliptic function has a pole.
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