A mixture of Poisson distributions over a nonnegative random intensity. With exposure and prior density , its probability mass function is . A gamma mixing distribution gives a negative binomial distribution. Counts sharing the same latent intensity are conditionally independent, but generally dependent after mixing.
Skellam distribution Created 2026-10-14 Updated 2026-11-05
The distribution of for independent Poisson random variables with means is the Skellam distribution. Its characteristic function is , its mean is and its variance is . For equal means ,
This is the fixed-time law of a symmetric Poisson difference process.
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For one acoustic half-space and vacuum on the other side, a harmonic point force gives displacement amplitude and fluid acoustic velocity potential amplitude . For time dependence , the outgoing acoustic square-root branch has for and for . The causal limit places the positive guided-mode pole above the inversion contour and the negative pole below. The saddle point generates cylindrical radiation, whereas guided residues decay normally to the membrane.
For the Boussinesq top-hat plume in a stratified ambient with , the exact pure-power solution has the displayed radius and velocity, and . With positive entrainment, radius, upward speed and reduced gravity, stable requires , whereas unstable requires . The stable branch has divergent buoyancy flux at zero height, so it is not a finite-flux point-source solution. The unstable branch has zero limiting source buoyancy flux and extracts buoyancy from its maintained unstable ambient. The cases are singular at nonzero ; instead admits the ordinary Boussinesq point-source plume.
For prescribed , the steady Boussinesq top-hat plume in a stratified ambient has kinematic fluxes , , and . Balancing powers in , , and gives exponents and these positive amplitudes. The ambient's static instability is prescribed without allowing it to drive ambient motion; the Boussinesq approximation additionally requires small density differences over the modeled height range.
The intersection of a line in Plücker coordinates with a plane covector is the first displayed homogeneous vector: it lies in the span of the defining points and its contraction with is zero by antisymmetry. A zero vector means the whole line is contained in the plane. Dually, the plane through the line and a point or ideal direction is given by the second formula; it vanishes if is already on the line. These operations require no Euclidean lengths or angles.
For , a nearly circular equatorial orbit has and azimuthal frequency . The radial epicyclic frequency is , and the vertical epicyclic frequency is . Radial stability requires . The nodal precession rate is negative and the apsidal precession rate positive. These sign statements concern small eccentricity and inclination. For an arbitrary inclined orbit, the averaged argument of periapsis instead evolves as and can regress.
For a sharp thermal front moving at fraction of the Darcy velocity , a cold fluid of viscosity displacing its hot counterpart of viscosity has the displayed growth rate in the local, unbounded planar approximation without thermal conduction. The harmonic pressure perturbations decay on either side. Pressure continuity and continuity of perturbed Darcy flux give the velocity response ; the thermal front's kinematic law is . The prefactor is the thermal-front speed, not the material pore velocity. Increasing viscosity with heating therefore makes the trailing thermal interface unstable even when the leading displacement of the original fluid is stable.
The complete graph has and , exceeding the planar graph edge bound . Therefore it is not a planar graph. The complete bipartite graph has and . The general bound allows twelve edges, but the bipartite planar graph edge bound allows only eight, proving nonplanarity.
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Actual plane-graph face counts compared with impossible face counts for the two complete-graph obstructions
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These are necessary bounds, not a complete planarity test. For an original counterexample, subdivide every edge of once. The resulting simple graph is a connected graph with , , and is bipartite: put all original vertices in one part and all nine new vertices in the other. Both inequalities hold, and . Nevertheless, a crossing-free graph drawing would let us trace each two-edge graph path as one curve, producing an impossible embedding of . The graph subdivision preserves this obstruction. Kuratowski's theorem supplies a stronger characterization than these counts.
If a finite simple graph is a connected graph, a bipartite graph, and a planar graph, with vertices, then . Every facial boundary walk has even length and length at least three, hence at least four. Thus ; substitute the Euler formula for a connected planar graph.[ref]
The square cycle graph attains equality: . The three-vertex graph path also attains equality: . Its repeated bridges in a graph illustrate why counting facial boundary walk length correctly matters. Neither bound applies unchanged to a multigraph: two vertices may support arbitrarily many parallel edges in a plane graph.
Area of a planar Brownian path Created 2026-10-14 Updated 2026-10-31
A planar Brownian motion range has zero two-dimensional Lebesgue measure almost surely. Assuming finite expected area, Brownian scaling gives half that expected area for each half-time range. Inclusion-exclusion then makes their expected overlap zero. Translate their ranges by the midpoint position; the independent Brownian arms at a deterministic time make the expected overlap the integral of the squared point-hitting probabilities for a half-time range. Those probabilities vanish almost everywhere, so the half-time expected area, and hence the full-time expected area, vanish. This argument does not assert zero hitting probability for every individual point solely from an almost-everywhere integral conclusion.
Omitted value 2026-10-14
An omitted value of a function is a point outside its image: the equation has no solution in . Both and matter. The complex exponential function on the complex plane has one omitted value in , namely zero, and two omitted values when regarded as a map into the Riemann sphere, namely zero and infinity. Restricting can create additional omitted values.
Pi-element 2026-10-14
A pi-element is an element whose order has no prime divisors outside a specified prime set . The identity is a pi-element for every prime set. Conjugation preserves the property because it preserves element order.
Proof that π is irrational Created 2026-10-14 Updated 2026-11-05
Ivan Niven's 1947 proof by contradiction constructs an integer strictly between zero and one.[ref] Suppose for positive integers . For a positive integer , put
Every derivative of at zero is an integer: its coefficients have denominator , its lowest polynomial degree is , and differentiation contributes the divisible factorial. The symmetry gives the same assertion at .
Cancellation gives , hence
The integrand is positive in , but , so
For large this is impossible for an integer. Therefore Pi is an irrational number.
Wallis product Created 2026-10-14 Updated 2026-10-20
The Wallis product is
Its finite product is . The Wallis integrals give , proving both convergence of the product and its value. The strict integral bounds also give .
Photon capture cross-section of a Reissner-Nordstrom black hole Created 2026-10-14 Updated 2026-10-18
For a Reissner-Nordstrom black hole with , the outer unstable circular null geodesic has radius . Maximizing for gives the critical impact parameter . The geometrical optics capture cross-section is , reducing to in Schwarzschild spacetime and in the extremal charged case. Finite-wavelength absorption need not equal this geometric limit.
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For collisionless photons in synchronous gauge, their perturbed momentum obeys . Terms in and direction deflection times angular derivatives of are second order. Integrating the remaining linear Collisionless Boltzmann equation over gives the displayed equation, because .
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Periodic displacements in a harmonic chain Created 2026-10-14 Updated 2026-11-05
For a chain with lattice spacing and atoms, write . The periodic normal-mode condition is , equivalently for unwrapped positions. The literal position condition is incompatible with the equilibrium in that coordinate system. Fourier modes give for spring coefficient . The zero mode describes free center-of-mass translation and must be fixed or handled separately when defining an oscillator vacuum.
Debye–Waller factor Created 2026-10-14 Updated 2026-11-05
The Debye–Waller factor suppresses coherent scattering because atoms fluctuate about their equilibrium positions. For Gaussian displacement , the amplitude factor is and the intensity factor is its squared modulus. It multiplies the lattice interference factor, so exact extrema of the full finite-lattice intensity need not coincide with the constructive-interference centers when this envelope varies appreciably.
Crest and trough 2026-10-14
The wave crest and wave trough are respectively the highest and lowest displacements in a wave.

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