For , with invertible , a pure coefficient matrix transforms as . Its unnormalized determinant is multiplied by . The invertible filter bijects pure decompositions before and after conditioning, with branch weights rescaled by their success probabilities. Taking both infima in the convex roof extension gives the displayed exact scaling. If either filter has rank one, the retained state is separable across that party.
Posterior mean from adjacent mixed Poisson probabilities Created 2026-10-14 Updated 2026-11-05
For a mixed Poisson distribution with known exposure , multiply the unnormalized posterior density by and compare its integral with the next probability mass. The factors give the displayed identity whenever . Both mass probabilities have the same exposure . For a future conditionally independent unit-exposure Poisson distribution count, this is also its posterior predictive expected value. It holds for arbitrary proper mixing distributions, with integrals taken against the prior measure when there is no density.
Overdispersion of nondegenerate mixed Poisson counts Created 2026-10-14 Updated 2026-11-05
Let be a finite random variable with finite second moment, and let have a Poisson distribution of mean . Then conditional expectation and the law of total variance giveA nondegenerate mixing law has positive variance, so the count is overdispersed relative to a Poisson distribution with the same expected value. For example, equal mixing between means and gives count expected value and variance . The finite-moment assumptions justify these ordinary variance identities; a proper mixing law can instead yield infinite count moments.
A spatial example uses Poisson point process parent locations of intensity , independent Poisson distribution offspring counts of expected value , and an offspring displacement probability distribution . Given the parents, the count in a bounded measurable region is Poisson with random mean . Its excess variance isThis follows from Campbell theorem. If has positive finite volume, the integral is finite and positive: and its integral is the volume of . Thus shared random parent locations produce extra count variation even though the offspring counts are conditionally Poisson.
Symmetry of second derivatives 2026-10-14
When the second partial derivatives are continuous in a neighborhood, the order of the mixed partial derivatives can be interchanged. Expressing a rectangular finite difference as either iterated integral by the fundamental theorem of calculus and shrinking the rectangle proves the equality. Mere existence of both derivatives does not imply this symmetry.
Unequal mixed partial derivatives 2026-10-14
For away from the origin and zero at the origin, proves Fréchet differentiability with zero derivative. Yet and , giving the displayed unequal mixed partial derivatives. They exist but are not continuous at the origin, so Clairaut's theorem does not apply.
Linear-spline mixed Gram matrix 2026-10-14
For the distinct-knot linear B-spline hats, let . The mixed-normalization spline Gram matrix has entriesOnly indices in the finite basis are retained. This matrix has a row strict diagonal dominance margin at least , so the inverse infinity-norm bound from diagonal dominance gives . Equidistant spline knots give off-diagonal entries . Both pieces of every hat are retained; repeated endpoint spline knots require different boundary formulas.
Let nonnegative partition-normalized B-splines form a basis, with on the integration interval and . The row-normalized mixed Gram matrix is . The normal equations for the orthogonal projection onto their linear span become , with and . The subpartition of unity for B-splines gives and proves the bound. The ordinary symmetric Gram matrix omits this essential row normalization. The projection maps continuous functions into the spline space, not onto all continuous functions.
Maximum code size at a given distance 2026-10-14
The quantity is the largest cardinality of a length- code over an alphabet of size with minimum Hamming distance at least . The code need not be linear.
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Relative minimum distance of a code 2026-10-14
A minimizing broken geodesic has no corner 2026-10-14
At an interior junction of two unit-speed geodesic segments, let be the incoming and the outgoing tangent. Choose points close to the junction in a common convex normal neighbourhood. Moving the junction with velocity changes the sum of the two segment lengths by , using the first variation of geodesic energy or the Gauss lemma. If , choose to reduce length. Hence a length-minimizing broken geodesic has matching tangents and is one smooth geodesic.
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Simple-pole formulas for minimal-subtraction renormalization group functions Created 2026-10-14 Updated 2026-11-05
In the minimal subtraction scheme, let , , and , . Define the renormalization-group beta function at fixed bare parameters by , and the running mass function by .
The bare coupling is scale independent, so . Its finite coefficient is , giving the first formula. Similarly has finite coefficient . The remaining poles cancel recursively: and . Thus the simple poles determine the finite renormalization group functions, while higher poles obey consistency conditions.
Two minimal left covering nets for the same identity neighbourhood can be matched bijectively so that paired translates intersect. Join to when . For , its neighbours cover every point covered by , so still covers the group. Minimality forces . Hall's marriage theorem supplies the matching, and an intersection gives . Averaging a continuous function over matched nets therefore gives values differing by at most its uniform oscillation on right displacements in . This is the finite combinatorial step in constructing Haar measure on a compact group.
Let be a metric connection for a Riemannian metric , and let be another affine connection on the same tangent bundle. The difference of affine connections is a tensor . Expanding the derivative of the metric tensor givesThus is a metric connection precisely when each endomorphism is skew-adjoint. This imposes no antisymmetry in ; that separate condition characterizes agreement of parametrized geodesics. If both conditions hold, is alternating in all three arguments.
Normal connection 2026-10-14
The ambient Levi-Civita connection induces this metric connection on the normal bundle of an embedded submanifold. Its tangential counterpart appears in the Weingarten formula. Projecting the derivative preserves the connection on a vector bundle Leibniz rule and the fiber inner product.
Nevanlinna theory 2026-10-14
Nevanlinna theory studies the growth and value distribution of meromorphic functions through their integrated pole counts and logarithmic proximity to target values. The Nevanlinna characteristic combines both quantities, while the Nevanlinna first main theorem compares it with the corresponding counts and proximity for any fixed target.
A meromorphic function on the plane with outside a disc has no poles there and only finitely many poles inside. Subtract their finite principal parts to obtain an entire function. For , Cauchy estimates make every derivative of order above vanish, so the remainder is a polynomial. For the remainder tends to zero at infinity and is zero by Liouville theorem. Adding back the principal parts gives a rational function in either case.
Mittag-Leffler's theorem 2026-10-14
Mittag-Leffler's theorem prescribes the principal parts of a meromorphic function. Given an open subset of the complex plane, a subset having no accumulation point in , and a finite sum of negative powers for each , there is a meromorphic function on with exactly these principal parts and no other poles. The difference of any two such meromorphic functions is a holomorphic function on , because their principal parts cancel at every prescribed pole.
Poles are isolated, including in the coordinate around infinity. Compactness of the Riemann sphere therefore leaves only finitely many poles. Subtract the finite principal parts at finite poles and the polynomial principal part at infinity. The remainder is entire with a finite limit at infinity, hence bounded and constant by Liouville's theorem. The original function is a sum of a polynomial and finitely many partial fractions, so is rational.
Algebraic addition theorem 2026-10-14
A meromorphic function has an algebraic addition theorem if some nonzero polynomial satisfies wherever the three values are finite. For a polynomial of degree , take roots of and of ; the product has polynomial coefficients in by the Fundamental theorem of symmetric polynomials, is monic in , and supplies an addition relation. An elliptic function also has such a relation, by finite algebraic extension of its function field and the Weierstrass elliptic function addition formula.
For a meromorphic function viewed as a holomorphic map to the unit Riemann sphere, this is the length density of the pulled-back spherical metric. Its square is the pulled-back area density. At a pole use the coordinate , which gives the same density. Some conventions omit the factor two and use a sphere of area ; all area normalizations must then change accordingly.
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