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Consider the following original five-vertex simple graph, where $AB$ denotes the undirected edge $\{A,B\}$:Its seven edges give initial expected value $q(\varnothing )=7/2=3.5$. Use vertex order $A,B,C,D,E$ and choose zero whenever the two child conditional expectations tie.

The complete decision ledger is below. A prefix lists fixed labels in vertex order; all later labels remain hypothetically independent fair bits. Each candidate entry is the conditional expectation of the final cut of a graph, including the contribution of unresolved edges.

For example, after $A=0,B=1$, edge $AB$ is fixed crossing and the other six edges are unresolved, giving $1+6/2=4$. Setting $C=0$ fixes $BC$ crossing and $AC$ noncrossing, leaving four unresolved edges: $2+4/2=4$. Setting $C=1$ instead fixes $AC$ crossing and $BC$ noncrossing, giving the same conditional expectation.

The final labels are $(0,1,0,0,1)$, so the two sides are $\{A,C,D\}$ and $\{B,E\}$. The five crossing edges are $AB,BC,DE,EA,BD$; $AC,CD$ do not cross. This exceeds $m/2=3.5$, and hence also the rounded-up guarantee of four edges.

It is not a maximum cut. Labels $(0,1,1,0,1)$ cross all edges except $BC$, giving six. Seven are impossible because the triangle in a graph $ABC$ cannot have all three edges crossing a two-sided cut of a graph. An independent enumeration of all $2^5=32$ complete label assignments gives the following distribution, counting an assignment and its label-swapped counterpart separately:

The weighted sum is $112$, so the average is $112/32=3.5$, agreeing with linearity of expectation. Choosing $C=0$ in the earlier tie discards the remaining size-six completion while preserving the average of four. The method protects an expected value guarantee; it need not preserve the best possible completion.

For any partial assignment $P$, let $f(P)$ count edges whose two endpoints are already fixed on opposite sides, and let $u(P)$ count edges with at least one unassigned endpoint. Under the remaining independent fair bits,An edge with fixed equal labels contributes zero; fixed unequal labels contribute one. If one endpoint is unassigned, its fair bit disagrees with the fixed label with probability $1/2$. If both endpoints are unassigned, their independent fair bits disagree with probability $1/2$ as well. Count each unresolved edge once, even when both endpoints are unassigned.

Process vertices in a fixed order. Evaluate the conditional expectation cut formula after setting the next label to zero and after setting it to one; retain the larger value, choosing zero on ties. The conditional expectation choice invariant ensures the final cut of a graph has size at least $m/2$. This is a deterministic approximation algorithm for maximum cut.^[ref]

The terms at $n=2j$ and $n=2j+1$ are $\ln [(2j+1)/(2j)]$ and its negative. Thus the partial sums ending at an odd index are zero, while those ending at $2m$ equal $\ln [(2m+1)/(2m)]\to 0$. Considering both subsequences proves convergence of the full sequence of partial sums, not merely of grouped terms.

The paired sum of absolute values is $2\ln [1+1/(2j)]$. Since $\ln (1+u)\ge u/(1+u)$ for $u\ge 0$, these pairs dominate $2/(2j+1)$, whose series diverges by comparison with the harmonic series. The original series therefore has conditional convergence with the displayed sum.

For an ideal chain inside a blob, $\nu =1/2$ and $\xi \sim b\sqrt{g}$. Together with $\varphi \sim g{v}_0/{\xi }^3$, this gives the displayed concentration-blob size. Under the site-volume approximation $v_0\sim b^3$, $\xi \sim b/\varphi$ and $g\sim {\varphi }^{-2}$. The estimate describes local overlap rather than the full chain size and requires $1\ll g\ll N$ for a well-developed semidilute regime.

The imaginary part $\kappa$ of the complex refractive index makes wave amplitude decay as $e^{-\omega \kappa z/c}$. Since intensity is proportional to amplitude squared, its absorption coefficient is ${\alpha }_{\mathrm{abs}}=2\omega \kappa /c$.

The real axis consists of the points of the complex plane whose imaginary part is zero. These points represent the real numbers.

A binary operation is noncommutative if some pair of elements fails to commute. Thus reversing their order can change the result. The same operation may still have many commuting elements.

The 2000 experiment prepared optical pulses with a mode-locked laser and broadened them in an air-silica microstructure optical fiber. A wavelength-selective beam splitter separated red and blue light. A nonlinear crystal doubled the red branch; the blue branch received a known acousto-optic shift. A filter selected recombined light for an avalanche photodiode, supplying an electronic beat. Mirror translation controlled repetition frequency; mirror tilt controlled offset with coupled effects. Separate delayed-pulse interference tested programmed phase changes. Alternative envelope fits and unmatched optical reflections were examined as checks and limitations.^[ref]

These readouts answer different questions. The electronic beat closes a feedback loop; changing its setpoint and checking the delayed-pulse phase tests whether that control reaches the optical waveform. Neither readout alone establishes the accuracy of an unknown optical frequency. That additionally requires a calibrated time reference, the correct tooth number and beat sign, and checks for missed cycles and drift. The ideal unshifted diagram above omits the experiment's known acousto-optic shift; its actual raw detector frequency must be corrected for that shift before identifying $f_0$.

For a vertical outgoing and returning radio wave, define the virtual height $h^{\prime }=c{\tau }_g/2$ from its round-trip group delay ${\tau }_g$, after removing instrument delays. It is the height a fictitious reflector would have if both legs traveled at $c$. It differs from both the real turning height $z_t$ and a height fitted to an oblique constant-path interference fringe model.

An original solvable profile makes the difference explicit. Approximate the region below $z_0$ by $n=1$, and prescribe a linear rise of squared plasma frequency above it:Here the symbol $u_t$ denotes the penetration depth, and $a$ has units ${\mathrm{s}}^{-2}{\mathrm{m}}^{-1}$. In the propagating part of the ramp, $n=\sqrt{1-(z-z_0)/u_t}$. In the leading geometrical-ray delay model, with a frequency-independent turning connection wave phase, the round-trip group delay isThe endpoint singularity is integrable: substitute $s=\sqrt{1-u/u_t}$ to obtain $2u_t$. This approximation does not resolve the finite-wavelength structure at the turning region. It illustrates the effect of slow group velocity before the return, rather than adding extra geometric altitude.

As an independent phase-based derivation, the propagation contribution to the round-trip wave phase isIts derivative $d\Psi /d\omega =2(z_0+2{\omega }^2/a)/c$ agrees with the delay integral. Using the phase integral itself as a distance at speed $c$ would give $z_0+2u_t/3$ instead of $h^{\prime }$: wave phase, group delay and real turning height are three different quantities.

Choose $z_0=70\mathrm{km}$ and stipulate $f_p(z)=3\mathrm{MHz}\sqrt{(z-z_0)/(30\mathrm{km})}$, where $f_p={\omega }_p/(2\pi )$. ThenAt $f=3\mathrm{MHz}$, the real turning height is $100\mathrm{km}$ but the virtual height is $130\mathrm{km}$, corresponding to ${\tau }_g\simeq 0.867\mathrm{ms}$ with $c\simeq 3.00\times 10^8\mathrm{m}{\mathrm{s}}^{-1}$. These stipulated parameters describe neither a measured profile nor a separate physical reflector at $130\mathrm{km}$. Because the ramp has no density maximum, it also has no finite upper penetration threshold; a real bounded E layer or F layer requires a richer profile.

A long coaxial cylindrical capacitor of length $L$ and radii $a,b$ has a dielectric-filled overlap of length $x$ and relative permittivity ${ϵ}_r$. Neglecting end and interface fringing, its filled and vacuum portions are in parallel because both share the same two conductors. The electric potential difference $V$ produces $E_r=V/[r\ln (b/a)]$ in either portion; the electric displacement field and electrode charge differ by the local permittivity. Adding their capacitances gives the title formula. The dielectric boundary is axial while the interior electric field is radial and tangential to that interface, consistent with the electrostatic interface boundary conditions.

In 1961, Raymond Rappaport gently removed membrane and jelly from sand dollar ova with a constricted pipette. After fertilization, he used an inverted optical microscope and rack-and-pinion manipulator to press a needle-mounted glass sphere through an egg onto the chamber floor, producing a torus-shaped biological cell. Visible spindle apparatus positions and cleavage furrow progression were the readout.^[ref]

First cytokinesis opened one side into a horseshoe containing two cell nuclei. During the next division, daughters separated from its free ends; an additional cleavage furrow crossed between mitotic asters of different spindle apparatuses. Control eggs supplied the timing comparison. This region lacked intervening chromosomes or a previous nearby spindle apparatus. This supported mitotic aster-associated positioning, without identifying the signal or establishing universal necessity.^[ref]

For a structureless particle with Hamiltonian $p^2/(2m)+ar$, $a>0$, the classical phase space integral gives the displayed one-particle partition function. Its spatial integral is $4\pi {\int }_0^{\infty }{r}^2{e}^{-ar/(k_{B}T)}dr=8\pi (k_{B}T/a{)}^3$, while the momentum integral gives ${\lambda }_T^{-3}$. For $N$ indistinguishable dilute particles, $Z_N=Z_1^N/N!$, $F\simeq -N{k}_{B}T[\ln (Z_1/N)+1]$, $U=(9/2)N{k}_{B}T$ and $S\simeq N{k}_B[\ln (Z_1/N)+11/2]$. These thermodynamic formulas use leading Stirling accuracy; the classical phase-space integral additionally requires temperatures above the discrete trap level scale.

The circumference of a circle is its boundary arc length. For radius $r$, it equals $2\pi r$. This growing boundary length accounts for the radial factor in the Rayleigh distribution.

A circular sector is the portion of a disc between two radii and the connecting circle arc. If its radius is $R$ and its central angle is $\theta$ radians, its area isIndeed, polar coordinates give $A={\int }_0^{\theta }{\int }_0^{R}rdrd\varphi$. The full disc corresponds to $\theta =2\pi$, a semicircle to $\theta =\pi$, and a quarter-disc to $\theta =\pi /2$. In a solid with horizontal sector cross-sections, radius $R(z)$ and angle $\theta (z)$, its volume is $\frac{1}{2}\int \theta (z)R(z{)}^{2}dz$. Holding the angles and heights fixed while scaling every radius by a factor $s$ scales that volume by $s^2$.

A circular arc is a connected portion of a circle. For radius $R>0$ and subtended central angle $0<\theta <2\pi$ measured in radians, its arc length is $R\theta$. Two distinct endpoints determine two circular arcs: when they are not opposite, the minor arc has $\theta <\pi$ and the major arc has $\theta >\pi$. Opposite endpoints determine two semicircles. The straight line segment joining the endpoints is a chord, rather than the curved circular arc itself.

Let $H,V$ be orthogonal linear polarizations, and prepare the Bell state $|{\Phi }^{+}⟩=(|HH⟩+|VV⟩)/\sqrt{2}$. The $+1$ analyzer vector is $|a⟩=\cos a|H⟩+\sin a|V⟩$; its orthogonal companion has outcome $-1$. Direct inner products with the Bell state give $P_{++}=P_{--}={\cos }^2(a-b)/2$ and $P_{+-}=P_{-+}={\sin }^2(a-b)/2$. Thus the expectation value of the outcome product is $E(a,b)=\cos 2(a-b)$. These are physical polarizer angles; their corresponding Bloch sphere angles are doubled.

For a stipulated isotropic admixture, use the density matrixThe maximally mixed state contributes zero correlation, so $P_{st}(a,b)=[1+stv\cos 2(a-b)]/4$ for $s,t\in \{-1,1\}$. Each local marginal is $1/2$, independently of the other setting, illustrating quantum no-signalling. In this model $v$ is the interferometric visibility of the coincidence fringe; other noise models need not have one common visibility for every basis.

Choose $a_0=0^{\circ }$, $a_1=45^{\circ }$, $b_0=22.5^{\circ }$ and $b_1=-22.5^{\circ }$. The four correlations in the displayed CHSH inequality are $v/\sqrt{2},v/\sqrt{2},v/\sqrt{2},-v/\sqrt{2}$. Consequently $S=2\sqrt{2}v$, exceeding the local bound exactly when $v>1/\sqrt{2}$. Perfect correlation at a single common setting would not yield this comparison between incompatible quantum measurements.

To connect probabilities with expected counts, stipulate $M$ emitted pairs per setting pair and independent detection efficiencies ${\eta }_A,{\eta }_B$, independent also of settings, outcomes and hidden variables. The expected joint counts are $n_{st}=M{\eta }_A{\eta }_B{P}_{st}$. Their normalized correlation isFor original teaching inputs $M=1000$, ${\eta }_A=0.8$, ${\eta }_B=0.75$ and $v=0.8$, the $(a_0,b_0)$ expected counts are $n_{++}=n_{--}\simeq 234.85$ and $n_{+-}=n_{-+}\simeq 65.15$. They total $600$ and give $E_{\det }\simeq 0.56569$, hence $S\simeq 2.26274$. Fractional expected counts are not measured data. Efficiency cancels here because the loss model was specified to be independent; this algebra supplies no justification for discarding failures in an arbitrary Bell test with a detection loophole.

For the displayed metric tensor, its inverse has components $g^{rr}=e^{-2\chi }$ and $g^{\theta \theta }=e^{-2\chi }/r^2$. The nonzero second-kind Christoffel symbols are ${\Gamma }^r{}_{rr}={\chi }^{\prime }$, ${\Gamma }^r{}_{\theta \theta }=-r-r^2{\chi }^{\prime }$ and ${\Gamma }^{\theta }{}_{r\theta }={\Gamma }^{\theta }{}_{\theta r}=1/r+{\chi }^{\prime }$. They follow by differentiating the two diagonal metric entries and raising the first index of the first-kind connection coefficients. Polar coordinates require treating $r=0$ separately.

For a nondegenerate spin-one-half ideal gas with energies $\mp {\mu }_{B}B(\mathbf{r})$, the two component chemical potentials are $k_{B}T\ln (n_{\pm }/n_Q)\mp {\mu }_{B}B$. Diffusive and spin-conversion equilibrium require one spatially constant common chemical potential, provided spin conversion is allowed. Hence the displayed densities give total number density $n=2n_Q{e}^{\beta \mu }\cosh (\beta {\mu }_{B}B)$ and magnetization $M=2{\mu }_B{n}_Q{e}^{\beta \mu }\sinh (\beta {\mu }_{B}B)=n{\mu }_B\tanh (\beta {\mu }_{B}B)$. The high-temperature fixed-density limit is $M\simeq n{\mu }_B^{2}B/(k_{B}T)$, a Curie law. At fixed chemical potential the density itself varies with temperature, so the unnormalized magnetization need not have a pure $1/T$ dependence.

For noninteger real $\gamma$, expand a smooth forcing as $F={\sum }_{n\ge 0}{F}_n{T}_n$ in Chebyshev polynomials. Because $(1-x^2)T_n^{\prime \prime }-x{T}_n^{\prime }=-n^2{T}_n$, division of each coefficient by ${\gamma }^2-n^2$ gives the regular solution. The coefficients use the weighted inner product with weight $(1-x^2{)}^{-1/2}$. Choosing the same endpoint domain as the regular eigenfunctions of the Sturm-Liouville problem is essential: finite values alone also allow homogeneous solutions $\cos (\gamma \arccos x)$ and $\sin (\gamma \arccos x)$, which generally have divergent endpoint derivatives. Setting $x=\cos \theta$ converts the regular endpoint condition into the Neumann boundary conditions $Z_{\theta }(0)=Z_{\theta }(\pi )=0$. The homogeneous equation then has no nonzero solution when $\gamma$ is noninteger, proving uniqueness in this domain.

For the Chebyshev differential equation $(1-x^2)y^{\prime \prime }-x{y}^{\prime }+k^{2}y=0$, a power series about the ordinary point zero splits into even and odd solutions with the displayed recurrence relation. Every nonterminating parity series has radius of convergence one. If $k^2=m^2$ for a nonnegative integer $m$, the parity series containing $x^m$ terminates, giving a polynomial with infinite radius of convergence; the other independent series still has radius one. Normalized solutions are $\cos (k\arcsin x)$ and $\sin (k\arcsin x)/k$, with the latter replaced by $\arcsin x$ when $k=0$.