If , the displayed identity expresses the decrease of the potential across a split. Here is the binary entropy function. If every split fraction stays in for a fixed , the potential decreases by at least . Consequently, for a recurrence relation with linear work at each split, the inductive hypothesis closes when and covers the base cases. This is a proof by the substitution method for a recurrence of an time complexity bound without requiring equal subproblem sizes.
Nonnegativity Created 2026-10-31 Updated 2026-11-05
The condition that a real number is at least zero. A nonnegative flow in a directed flow network follows the specified orientation or has zero value; a negative algebraic solution would describe the opposite orientation instead.
Two-colour Schur theorem 2026-10-31
Every red-blue colouring of the positive integers contains a monochromatic triple with ; the summands need not be distinct. Colour each edge of by the colour of . Since the Ramsey number is at most , there is a monochromatic triangle . Its positive edge differences , and have one colour and satisfy the required sum equation.
Coulomb radial origin condition 2026-10-31
For the usual three-dimensional Coulomb potential Hamiltonian operator, a separated radial wavefunction uses the reduced function , whose radial norm has measure . The regular physical operator domain imposes . Near the origin the leading radial equation gives the indicial equation for , with roots and .
The regular root gives . The other root gives , and its radial probability integral diverges for . At , is locally square-integrable in three dimensions, but violates and has divergent kinetic energy integral . Thus local wavefunction normalization alone is insufficient to select the physical branch in this exceptional case; the standard Coulomb energy domain supplies the missing condition.
Hydrogenic ground-state radius scaling 2026-10-31
For the one-electron Coulomb potential with fixed nucleus, the normalized spherically symmetric ground state is , where and . Its radial probability density is . The factorial integral givesMore generally for real , by the gamma function integral. The density transformation expresses the full scaling, not just its mean. It applies to a hydrogen-like ion with one electron; the exact neutral helium atom radius additionally depends on the two-electron Coulomb interaction.
Quadratic excitation of an oscillator ground state Created 2026-10-31 Updated 2026-11-05
Multiplying the quantum harmonic oscillator ground state by produces a quantum superposition of only its and energy eigenstates. In the conventional phase choice for the creation and annihilation operators, and . ThereforeAfter wavefunction normalization, the energy measurement probabilities are at and at . Rephasing the second basis state can change the displayed relative coefficient's sign but cannot change these probabilities. For example, defining the unscaled creation operator as reverses the sign of the basis function generated from .
For equal masses in identical quadratic traps with an interaction depending quadratically on , the displayed orthogonal coordinates of the normal modes separate the Hamiltonian operator into a collective and a relative oscillator. orthogonality preserves both the kinetic Laplacian and the absolute coordinate Jacobian. Particle exchange fixes and negates . Hence bosonic exchange symmetry selects even relative oscillator levels, and fermionic exchange symmetry selects odd ones. For a trap frequency and interaction , the two frequencies are and ; the relative oscillator length diverges when the latter approaches zero.
Fixed odd numerator Legendre-symbol periodicity Created 2026-10-31 Updated 2026-11-05
For a fixed positive odd integer , the Legendre symbol for odd prime denominators depends only on modulo . For prime numerator , quadratic reciprocity expresses it as times a sign determined by modulo four. Factorization of and multiplicativity prove the general statement. If a denominator divides , the congruence forces the other prime denominator to be identical, so the zero cases agree too.
Orthostatic proteinuria Created 2026-10-31 Updated 2026-11-05
Amyloid 2026-10-31
Fibrillar aggregates of misfolded proteins with characteristic structural and staining properties. Amyloidosis names the associated deposition disorders.[ref]
Hausdorff property of a nonempty product 2026-10-31
For nonempty topological spaces , their product topology is Hausdorff exactly when both factors are Hausdorff spaces. Distinct pairs differ in some coordinate, and disjoint open neighbourhoods in that factor give disjoint open rectangles in the Cartesian product. Conversely, fixing gives a homeomorphism from onto the topological subspace ; similarly for . The Hausdorff condition passes to topological subspaces. Nonemptiness matters: an empty set product is Hausdorff regardless of the other factor.
Rectangularity of every product-open set 2026-10-31
Every open subset of a product of two topological spaces is a rectangle exactly when at least one factor has the indiscrete topology. For necessity, if both factors have nonempty proper open sets , , then is open, projects onto both full factors, and omits every point of . A rectangle with both full projections would be the whole product, a contradiction. For sufficiency, if is indiscrete, every basic open rectangle is or empty; an arbitrary union is . The same argument works when is indiscrete. Empty factors cause no exception because their topology is indiscrete.
Product projection 2026-10-31
A product projection takes a tuple to its coordinate with the chosen index. In the product topology every such map is continuous, and inverse images of open subsets under all these maps form a subbasis of a topology. A map into the product is continuous exactly when its compositions with all product projections are continuous.
Local compactness of a product with finitely many noncompact factors Created 2026-10-31 Updated 2026-11-05
A product topology on locally compact factors is locally compact if all but finitely many factors are compact. At a point, choose a compact neighborhood in each of the finitely many exceptional factors and take the full compact space in every other coordinate. Tychonoff's theorem makes their product compact, and the product contains an open basic neighborhood because only finitely many coordinates were restricted. In contrast is not locally compact: a basic neighborhood has a free coordinate projecting onto all of the noncompact real line, so no compact set can contain it.
Fetus Created 2026-10-31 Updated 2026-11-05
Placenta Created 2026-10-31 Updated 2026-11-05
Decidua Created 2026-10-31 Updated 2026-11-05
Maternal endometrial tissue modified during pregnancy. It contributes to the maternal side of the placental interface, distinguishing it from fetal trophoblast and other fetal placental tissues.
Gestational age 2026-10-31
A dating measure conventionally reckoned from the first day of the last menstruation, rather than directly from observed fertilization.
Miscarriage Created 2026-10-31 Updated 2026-11-05
Ectopic pregnancy 2026-10-31
A pregnancy implanted outside the normal endometrial cavity; tubal rupture can cause severe internal haemorrhage.
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