Critical-density mass of a thermal relic neutrino Created 2026-10-14 Updated 2026-11-05
A standard thermal Cosmic neutrino background with one populated neutrino and one antineutrino helicity per species has after electron-positron annihilation in cosmology. If this species is nonrelativistic today and dominates a spatially flat matter universe, equate to the critical density , using the unreduced Planck mass. The photon number density gives the displayed conditional mass. Extra populated states or several massive species change the abundance count; vacuum-dominated cosmology changes the density available for matter.
Suppose and . The formula for relative risk from group compositions increases with and decreases with , since increases and decreases. This monotonicity proves the displayed bounds. If percentages are rounded to the nearest whole percentage point, each corresponding proportion lies within of its displayed value. These bounds describe rounding uncertainty; they are not a confidence interval for sampling uncertainty.
Compare expected utility of , where , with the certainty equivalent . A second-order Taylor expansion gives for the risky side and for the sure side. Equality gives the displayed proportional risk premium. This requires a genuinely small-shock family with controlled remainders; small variance alone does not control rare large wealth shocks.
Dielectric screening Created 2026-10-14 Updated 2026-10-20
Modification of the interaction between electric charges by a medium's electrical response. In the simplest Wannier-Mott exciton model, the Coulomb potential is reduced by a constant relative permittivity; actual screening can depend on spatial and temporal scales.
Homotopy excision theorem 2026-10-14
For a based CW triad with connected intersection , if is -connected and is -connected, , the comparison map is an isomorphism for and a surjection for . This connectivity form of the Blakers-Massey theorem controls the failure of ordinary relative homotopy to satisfy unrestricted excision.
If a pointed CW complex is covered by contractible subcomplexes containing the basepoint, every reduced class lifts to a relative class for each appropriate subcomplex. Their relative cup product lies in , so every product of reduced classes vanishes. The conclusion also holds if is path connected. Without either condition a two-point space covered by its two points is a counterexample in ordinary degree-zero cohomology.
Relative cycle 2026-10-14
A relative cycle for is a chain whose boundary lies in . Equivalently its coset is a homological cycle in . Unlike an absolute cycle, its boundary need not be zero. It represents a relative homology class.
The coordinate hyperplane is an embedded submanifold, as standard projective charts flatten its defining homogeneous coordinate. Its complement is the affine chart and is connected. The lemma regular zero hypersurfaces have disconnected complements therefore excludes its being the zero set of a smooth real function with zero a regular value.
Classically, a regular formula sequent that is not provable has a set-valued countermodel, with empty sorts allowed. Start with the finite diagram of its antecedent, successively adjoin witnesses to the existential consequences of each axiom, and identify elements when equality axioms require it. Every new fact about the original parameters has a finite derivation, so the nonderivable consequent remains false. The filtered union of this witness construction is a model. The conservativity property of this chase construction is studied in Forssell and Lumsdaine's paper.
Formal expansion at a smooth point Created 2026-10-14 Updated 2026-11-05
Let be smooth over a field , and let be a -rational point of local dimension . Put , whose residue field is . A chosen regular system of parameters gives the displayed completion isomorphism by sending to . The associated graded ring of a regular local ring is the polynomial ring on their initial forms. Successively removing the homogeneous initial form of each remainder gives a unique formal series for every local function. The Krull intersection theorem embeds the local ring in its completion. The power-series characterization is also given in Stacks Project Lemma 10.160.10.
Depth of a Noetherian local ring Created 2026-10-14 Updated 2026-11-05
The depth of a Noetherian local ring is the maximal length of an -regular sequence in its maximal ideal. It is at most its Krull dimension. Quotienting by a nonzero divisor in the maximal ideal lowers depth by one. A unit is excluded from this assertion, since its quotient is the zero ring. This invariant measures how many independent successive nonzero-divisor equations the local algebra supports.
Centralizer of a regular permutation subgroup Created 2026-10-14 Updated 2026-11-05
Identify a regular orbit with the group using a chosen base point. A permutation commuting with all left translations satisfies . Thus the centralizer consists of right translations. Defining makes and gives an isomorphism to , rather than an unmentioned reversal of multiplication.
For disjoint nonempty vertex sets of a graph, an -irregular pair is one that is not an -regular pair of vertex sets. Equivalently there are witnesses , with , and . Splitting both cells by these witnesses increases their contribution to the regularity energy by at least : the witness rectangle has relative weight at least , its mean discrepancy has magnitude greater than , and the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality bounds the weighted sum of squared discrepancies below by the rectangle weight times its squared mean. This is the local increment in the energy-increment proof of Szemerédi regularity.
Dense regular pair from edge surplus Created 2026-10-14 Updated 2026-10-31
The Szemerédi regularity lemma gives equal cells. If every regular cross-cell pair had density at most , their total edge contribution would be at most . Exceptional vertices, within-cell edges and irregular pairs contribute at most . Choosing and contradicts . The dense pair is -regular since it is already -regular.
Let ordered by subset. Encode a finite subset and output by a natural number . Define and . Every Scott continuous map satisfies , proving that application is the projection of a retraction. Lambda abstraction has graph .
Near a nilpotent origin with , , the weighted scaling , , , , makes the leading cubic confinement flow , . Direct differentiation proves conservation of . For the origin is a centre and are saddles. Their heteroclinic connections have and for . Positive lower energy levels surround the centre; higher levels escape the potential well.
For a reflection-symmetric vector field , , introduce , . Differentiating gives and a cubic acceleration with coefficient . The contribution comes from differentiating the first equation's cubic term. Further cubic near-identity transformations can remove nonresonant terms but cannot turn into a nonzero coefficient by a nonsingular scaling. This is a useful check before assigning a generic reflection-symmetric Bogdanov–Takens bifurcation to a calculated Taylor expansion.
The ratio of the terminal value of a standard Brownian motion to its running maximum at time one has density for and zero otherwise. The Brownian reflection principle gives joint density for . Substituting and integrating the Jacobian factor proves the density; its integral on is one.
Apply the Skorokhod reflection map on the half-line to Brownian motion with negative constant drift and positive variance parameter . The result is kept nonnegative by a regulator acting only at zero. It has a stationary distribution, unlike zero-drift reflection on the whole half-line.
Bruhat decomposition 2026-10-14
For a connected reductive algebraic group, a Borel subgroup , and a maximal torus , the Weyl group indexes the double cosets:

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