Chapman estimator 2026-10-14
The Chapman estimator is a correction intended to reduce the small-sample bias of the Lincoln-Petersen estimator. Under the fixed-size hypergeometric sampling assumptions it is exactly an unbiased estimator when ; it can have nonzero bias otherwise. This qualification and the formula are stated in Barker, §1.1.1, equation (1.3), citing Chapman's work through Seber. For the toy observations,It is an alternative estimator, not a maximum-likelihood estimate for this capture-recapture model. The Chapman estimator remains finite when , but a finite output does not supply the missing overlap information or repair unequal catchability, lost marks, or population change.
Lincoln-Petersen estimator 2026-10-14
The Lincoln-Petersen estimator is the ratio estimator obtained by matching the observed overlap to its hypergeometric expected value. It is defined when . To distinguish that ratio from the exact integer maximization, consecutive positive likelihoods satisfyThis comparison is valid for . For the toy counts, the numerator minus the denominator is . Thus the likelihood function increases up to ninety-nine, ties at ninety-nine and one hundred, then decreases for every larger integer. This independently establishes the global maximum-likelihood estimates, beyond the plotting window. The adjacent-ratio method is given in Guiteras, §8.
Average a closed one-form over fibre rotations. The average differs from the original by an exact form because each rotation is isotopic to the identity; the Cartan formula for the Lie derivative supplies an explicit homotopy integral. Its vertical value is constant, since closedness and rotational invariance give . Subtracting leaves a basic form , and closedness gives . For a zero-flux magnetic field, the Liouville mean of is zero: the directional mean of vanishes, the vertical mean is , and the coboundary has zero mean by volume preservation.
Closed one-forms on the two-sphere are exact 2026-10-14
Remove the north pole and south pole separately. Each resulting chart is diffeomorphic to the plane, so the Poincaré lemma supplies local primitives of a closed one-form. Their difference has zero derivative on the connected overlap and is constant. Adjust one primitive by that constant and glue. This proves exactness without assuming a prior computation of de Rham cohomology.
A buoyantly rising inviscid bubble in otherwise quiescent unbounded liquid has an exterior Stokeslet with . Its tangential traction vanishes on the sphere. The dynamic normal traction is , while the hydrostatic normal-traction variation is . Their dipoles cancel at the terminal velocity, leaving a constant total normal stress compatible with uniform gas pressure even when surface tension is zero. This is an exact spherical solution in the stated Stokes model, not a proof of shape stability under arbitrary perturbations.
For a clean inviscid bubble a distance below a gravity-restored approximately flat free surface, the surface displacement scales as . Zero normal velocity and zero tangential traction are imposed to leading order by an opposite normal image Stokeslet at distance from the bubble. Its incident velocity is , which gives the displayed correction at fixed buoyancy. The image can be represented by a same-radius inviscid drop of density in liquid of density . Its deformation-producing strain is , so the leading fractional capillary deformation is ; small Bond number is the conventional stronger sufficient criterion.
Classification-tree deviance 2026-10-14
Maximizing a node's multinomial likelihood gives class probabilities . Twice the negative maximized log-likelihood relative to perfect classification is the displayed deviance, with . It equals twice the node size times its Shannon entropy. A split is chosen by maximizing , and tree deviance is the sum over terminal nodes. The training misclassification count is instead ; the two criteria are different.
Cost-complexity tree pruning 2026-10-14
Pruning balances a tree's empirical loss against the number of leaves. Increasing favors a nested sequence of smaller subtrees, obtained by removing splits with the smallest effective cost per removed leaf. Choose complexity using cross-validation or a validation set, and assess the selected tree on a separate test set. The loss can be deviance or misclassification loss; the chosen convention must be specified.
Dual-exponent Clarkson inequality 2026-10-14
A planar circle other than the unit circle lifts to a great circle exactly when it meets the unit circle at two opposite points. A great circle other than the equator intersects the equator in an antipodal pair. Conversely the plane containing a lifted circle and an antipodal pair contains their midpoint, the sphere's centre. Algebraically, adding the equations and with gives the displayed condition.
Cycle class map 2026-10-14
For a smooth complex projective algebraic variety, the cycle class map sends an algebraic cycle of codimension to the Poincare dual of its homology class. Rational equivalence gives the same cohomology class, so the map descends to the Chow group. It respects intersection products, pullback and proper pushforward; a cohomological obstruction therefore obstructs the corresponding proposed identity of Chow classes.
Chow class 2026-10-14
The equivalence class of an algebraic cycle modulo rational equivalence. The Chow group consists of these classes with addition induced by adding cycles.
Chordal filling 2026-10-14
A chordal filling is the closed connected set obtained from a proper boundary-to-boundary path by adding complementary pockets disconnected from both boundary arcs between its marked endpoints. In it meets the boundary only at zero and infinity and leaves two complementary simply connected sides, adjacent to the negative and positive real axes. Equivalently it is full with respect to the two marked boundary arcs. This definition uses the prime ends of a general simply connected domain and is preserved by conformal maps.
Restriction exponent of a chordal filling 2026-10-14
A conformally invariant random chordal filling has exponent when its avoidance probability for every admissible hull is the displayed power, where fixes zero and has derivative one at infinity. Composition of two hull-removing maps and the chain rule make conditional image avoidance probabilities the same as unconditional ones. The avoidance probabilities determine a chordal filling law principle therefore implies the chordal restriction property. Independent unions followed by filling add exponents, since avoidance probabilities multiply.
Chiral fermion trace contraction 2026-10-14
With Minkowski metric signature and , define . Then . The symmetric-tensor contraction gives twice the sum of the two possible dot-product pairings; the Levi-Civita symbol contraction, including the two factors of , gives twice their difference. Their sum is the displayed identity, explaining the single pairing in left-chiral weak rates.
Superspace Yang-Mills Bianchi identity 2026-10-14
For a real Abelian vector superfield, is chiral. The supercovariant derivative algebra with left derivatives gives , proving the displayed reality condition. Its component equations contain the ordinary gauge-theory Bianchi identity, not the Maxwell equations of motion. For a non-Abelian gauge group, replace these by gauge-covariant derivatives and compare both field strengths in the same gauge frame; the identity follows from the graded Jacobi identity of the superconnection.
Chief factor 2026-10-14
A chief factor of is a quotient with normal in and no -normal subgroup strictly between them. Equivalently, is a minimal normal subgroup of . Such factors are the successive factors of a chief series, and are direct products of isomorphic simple groups when is finite.
Simply laced Chevalley commutator formula 2026-10-14
Serre relations 2026-10-14
For simple-root generators with , the Serre relations include and for . The off-diagonal Cartan entries are nonpositive integers. These relations restrict which iterated simple-root brackets remain nonzero.
Characteristic series of an Iwasawa module 2026-10-14
For a finitely generated torsion Iwasawa module, this is a generator of its characteristic ideal, unique up to a unit of the formal power series ring. It may be chosen as a power of times a product of distinguished polynomials. The series itself and the ideal it generates are different objects; changing a generator by a unit preserves the ideal. When the finite Euler characteristic of a one-variable Iwasawa module is defined, the inverse p-adic absolute value of its constant term gives that invariant.
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