Hyperbolic law of sines Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
Hyperbolic triangle Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
A hyperbolic triangle is bounded by three hyperbolic geodesics and may have vertices on the ideal boundary.
Lambert quadrilateral Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
A Lambert quadrilateral is a hyperbolic quadrilateral with three right angles. If its remaining angle is and the two sides incident with that angle have lengths , then
Hyperboloid model Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
The hyperboloid model of the curvature-minus-one hyperbolic plane isIts metric is the restriction of the Minkowski bilinear form to tangent planes, and its geodesics are intersections with two-dimensional linear subspaces through the origin.
Cayley transform (hyperbolic geometry) Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
Poincaré half-plane model Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
Hyperbolic plane Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-28
The hyperbolic plane is the simply connected two-dimensional geometry of constant curvature minus one.
Linearization stability theorem Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-31
If every Jacobian eigenvalue has negative real part, the equilibrium is locally asymptotically stable.
More generally, if the equilibrium is hyperbolic, the Hartman-Grobman theorem transfers the local attracting, repelling or saddle behavior of the linearized vector field to the nonlinear flow. Two real eigenvalues with opposite signs give a saddle equilibrium; all real parts positive give a source. Purely imaginary or zero eigenvalues require a separate nonlinear analysis. Merely having distinct eigenvalues does not remove this exception.
First excited hydrogen eigenspace Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
Electric-dipole selection rules for hydrogen Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
Clamped-free beam under uniform load and endpoint force Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-07
Forwith the boundary conditions , , and , the higher-order Euler-Lagrange equation isIts solution splits as
Commuting time-dependent two-state Hamiltonian Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-11-05
If a time-dependent perturbation remains diagonal in a fixed eigenbasis, Hamiltonians at different times commute. Each component therefore acquires the exact phase , with no time ordering required.
Perfect distinguishability of pure states Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-11-05
Two pure states can be distinguished with certainty in one measurement exactly when their inner product is zero.
Helstrom measurement for two pure states Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-11-05
Suppose a preparation chooses normalized pure states with equal prior probabilities. Write . The optimal minimum-error quantum measurement assigns the positive and negative eigenspaces of to guesses 0 and 1, respectively. Its success probability isZero-eigenvalue directions may be assigned arbitrarily. Orthogonal quantum states give certainty, while identical quantum states allow only probability . This is minimum-error discrimination; it does not introduce an inconclusive outcome.
For unequal prior probabilities with , use the positive and negative eigenspaces of instead. For two pure states,Thus identical states reduce to guessing the more likely preparation. Omitting the prior weights would generally select the wrong measurement. [ref]
The Theory of Quantum Information by John Watrous. Section 3.1.1, Theorem 3.4, Holevo–Helstrom theorem with prior parameter lambda
Hardy-Littlewood maximal inequality Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-11-05
For and , the Hardy-Littlewood maximal function satisfiesThis is a weak type (1,1) bound: it controls the size of a superlevel set rather than asserting . The uncentered maximal weak-type inequality gives, for example, , since the centred maximal function is no larger than its uncentred counterpart.
For the covering argument, take a compact subset of the superlevel set and choose a finite family of balls on which the average of exceeds . The Wiener covering lemma selects disjoint balls whose triple dilations cover that compact set. The volumes of the selected balls sum to at most . Their triples supply the factor , and inner regularity of Lebesgue measure removes the compact-subset restriction. This estimate turns a small approximation error into a small exceptional set of bad local averages.
Integrable Hamiltonian system Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-11-05
An autonomous Hamiltonian system on a -dimensional symplectic manifold is Liouville integrable when it has conserved functions in mutual Poisson commutation, with independent differentials on the regular region. One normally takes . The involution condition is ; independence excludes counting powers of one integral of motion as different integrals.
The Liouville–Arnold theorem turns a compact connected regular common level into an invariant torus. Nearby action-angle variables give and , so the angular motion is linear.[ref]
Classical Dynamics by David Tong. Section 4.5.2, Integrable Systems, equations for action-angle evolution
Compactness and regularity matter: separatrices and singular common levels need not be tori. The uncoupled harmonic oscillators in Liouville integrability of the isotropic harmonic oscillator give an explicit example. Canonical transformation Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
A canonical transformation preserves the symplectic form and hence all Poisson brackets. In one degree of freedom, an invertible map is canonical exactly when .
Variational derivative Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-11-05
The variational derivative of a functional is the coefficient of a test variation after integration by parts:The allowed variations and boundary conditions are part of the definition; compact support of in the interior removes boundary contributions without discarding physical boundary terms arbitrarily.
For example, has first variationThus its interior variational derivative is . Fixed endpoint values impose . If the endpoint values are free, stationarity also imposes the natural Neumann boundary conditions . The bulk Euler-Lagrange equation and boundary conditions therefore carry different parts of the same variation.
Poisson bracket Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
Hamiltonian Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-11-05
A Hamiltonian is a function generating evolution in Hamiltonian mechanics. In canonical coordinates its derivatives give and . Starting from a regular Lagrangian , the Legendre transform in mechanics defines and , after expressing velocities in terms of momenta.
For an ordinary particle with kinetic energy and position-dependent potential , is its mechanical energy. This familiar interpretation requires attention to coordinates and interactions: velocity-dependent couplings change the relation between canonical momentum and mass times velocity. Along Hamiltonian motion, , so an explicit time-dependent drive can change even though the canonical equations still apply.
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