For and normalized , filtering by succeeds withThe inequality follows by replacing each nonnegative by its minimum and using . Equality holds exactly when all occupied eigenvectors belong to the minimum-eigenvalue eigenspace. If , success is positive exactly for inputs outside the kernel of .
If lies in the kernel of , then has no normalized quantum state. A request to produce that normalized vector with positive probability is consequently undefined. For example, on one qubit has distinct dyadic eigenvalues, but annihilates . The corrected filtering assertion requires ; it cannot be repaired by assigning a positive success probability to this input.
Brassard–Høyer–Tapp collision algorithm 2026-10-06
Query a known set of inputs and store its output table. If no function collision occurs there, each of its distinct outputs has exactly one partner in the complement, for a two-to-one function. A compute-phase-uncompute construction marks those partners using two function queries and reversible table comparison. Known-subset Grover search then uses such phase queries. Including table preparation and a final verification query givesChoosing balances both terms and gives . The Grover rotation angle rounding bound gives success tending to one. This is a query bound; it does not make reversible table lookup free in a gate or physical-memory cost model.
Quantile derivative identity 2026-10-06
If is the quantile function of an absolutely continuous probability distribution with probability density function , then for almost every . Gaps in the support may give jumps in , so the identity concerns its ordinary almost-everywhere derivative. It follows by differentiating the inverse relation to the cumulative distribution function.
Left continuity of the quantile function Created 2026-10-06 Updated 2026-10-14
For , , the quantile function is a monotone function and is left-continuous. The distribution function is right-continuous, giving exactly when . If , a point between them has and contradicts this equivalence for some . A jump just to the right of is possible when is flat on an interval.
For a Newtonian Kepler orbit, let be the total mass and the reduced mass; put , , and , with . In the convention , differentiating the acceleration givesThe two terms have zero cross tensor contraction, with squared norms and . Therefore . Substitution into the quadrupole formula in this convention, , proves the luminosity. It is nonnegative since . The formula uses a weak gravitational field, slow motion and leading radiation order; orbital averaging gives a secular luminosity.
For a slowly evolving circular binary star with separation , reduced mass and orbital angular frequency , the leading gravitational wave losses satisfy . One direct check uses the standard quadrupole angular-momentum loss lawwhere is the mass quadrupole moment and is the Levi-Civita symbol. For , put ; then , , , and . Substitution gives and the quadrupole formula gives . Their ratio proves the balance relation. The same relation follows from the rotating wave's angular harmonic number two and frequency . The additional angular-momentum flux law, not the energy flux alone, is needed to justify preservation of secular circularity.
For a point mass moving as along one fixed axis, the trace-free mass quadrupole moment is . Its radiating component has twice the source angular frequency. The quadrupole formula gives for this contribution in the leading slow-motion weak-field approximation. Any physical driver or support has its own quadrupole contribution; this expression is for the prescribed mass alone.
Head-on quadrupole radiation from equal masses Created 2026-10-06 Updated 2026-10-07
For two equal point masses at falling from rest at under Newtonian gravity, in geometrized units one has and . The only nonzero component of the second mass moment tensor is , and its third derivative is . The trace-free mass quadrupole moment and quadrupole formula give the displayed power. From infinity, integrating down to gives . Relative to the total initial mass the fraction is . The weak-field slow-motion approximation must be distinguished from its extrapolation to a compact endpoint.
Convergence of positive quadrature on continuous functions Created 2026-10-06 Updated 2026-10-14
On a compact interval, positive quadrature rule weights whose sum is the interval length define uniformly bounded functionals on continuous functions. If the rules eventually integrate every fixed polynomial exactly, the Weierstrass approximation theorem proves convergence for every continuous function.
Quadratic-inflation amplitude calibration 2026-10-06
Quadratic-inflation tilt-tensor relation Created 2026-10-06 Updated 2026-10-07
The quadratic potential has equal potential slow-roll parameters, . Consequently and at leading order. The relation is independent of the inflaton mass, so a satisfactory scalar tilt does not by itself guarantee a satisfactory tensor prediction.
Fractional row bound for quadratic knapsack 2026-10-06
Conditioning on selecting item leaves capacity . Its fractional knapsack problem bounds that item's total interaction with the other selected items. Thus the ordered-pair quadratic objective is at most . Remove overweight items before defining their residual-capacity problems.
Quadratic inequality 2026-10-06
For a real quadratic with , strict negativity occurs between its two distinct real roots, if they exist. Completing the square gives discriminant as the existence condition. A physical domain restriction must be intersected with that interval.
Quadratic formula 2026-10-06
For a quadratic equation with , completing the square givesOver the complex numbers both roots exist, with a repeated root of a polynomial when the discriminant is zero. Over the real numbers the discriminant determines whether there are two distinct roots, one repeated root, or no real root.
For a Gaussian integral from to , a saddle point contribution dominates for . The moving endpoint contribution in steepest descent dominates for . At the two endpoints have equal exponential rates and both are needed; for larger angles the fixed endpoint dominates. Saddle connectivity switches at , but that change is subdominant in the leading endpoint regime.
PBR exclusion measurement for zero and plus 2026-10-06
The product preparations are excluded respectively by the orthonormal vectors , , and , written in the computational basis. Each vector has zero inner product with its labelled preparation. This projective measurement gives antidistinguishable quantum states and drives the two-copy PBR theorem contradiction.
Tensor-power reduction of PBR overlap 2026-10-06
If two pure quantum states overlap by , their -copy states have overlap . Each block spans an effective qubit, with orthonormal basis and . Applying the two-block PBR exclusion measurement for zero and plus uses independently prepared copies. A common single-copy ontic overlap of positive mass remains positive under this finite tensor power.
Pure plume balance 2026-10-06
For the constant-entrainment axisymmetric plume equations , with , pure balance means at every height. This is a similarity relation between fluxes, not a requirement that the physical source have zero radius. A finite source on this curve is represented by a plume virtual origin. For fluxes normalized by pi and top-hat fields, the same relation is .
Alternating proximal-gradient operator Created 2026-10-06 Updated 2026-10-25
For a jointly smooth convex function , update implicitly by its proximal minimization at fixed , then update explicitly with the gradient at the mixed point . The combined map is -averaged for , as follows by applying cocoercivity at two mixed points. Its fixed points are precisely the minimizers. If a minimizer exists, averaged iteration proves convergence.
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