Strong law for submartingales with bounded increments Created 2026-10-06 Updated 2026-10-14
If a submartingale has uniformly bounded increments, then almost surely. In its Doob decomposition in discrete time, the predictable compensator is nondecreasing, while the martingale part has bounded increments. The strong law for martingales with bounded increments makes the latter negligible on the linear scale.
Divisor class group of a plane-curve complement Created 2026-10-06 Updated 2026-10-07
If is an irreducible plane curve of degree , the localization sequence for the divisor class group quotients by the class . Nonsingularity of the removed curve is not required; irreducibility makes it a single removed prime Weil divisor.
Torsion-free divisible Abelian group Created 2026-10-06 Updated 2026-10-07
A divisible Abelian group is torsion-free precisely when division by each nonzero integer is unique. Defining rational scalar multiplication by identifies these groups with vector spaces over the rational numbers, including the zero space.
Exponential divided difference Created 2026-10-06 Updated 2026-10-14
The displayed integral is for distinct exponents and when they coincide. The latter is the continuous limit, so a zero denominator is a removable singularity. This quantity appears in variation-of-constants formula estimates of matrix evolution and avoids omitting an equal-exponent case.
Dissipative Cayley-transform contraction Created 2026-10-06 Updated 2026-10-14
If in a finite-dimensional Hilbert space, is invertible for every positive . The relation gives . Thus the Crank-Nicolson method contracts for such a linear system even when is a non-normal matrix. This is a direct energy result, not an unqualified inequality by a scalar rational function evaluated at a logarithmic norm.
Conditional measures of a factor 2026-10-06
The fiber-supported measurable probability kernel supplied by the disintegration theorem for a probability measure for a factor map. For integrable , almost everywhere. The same construction applies to general measurable maps and countably generated sub-sigma-algebras modulo null sets.
Let . A supported sample guarantees . Dividing its linear congruence by gives an invertible coefficient modulo and a unique residue there. The compatible discrete logarithms modulo are for . Only determines the discrete logarithm from the sample alone; conveys no information for .
Harmonic maximum principle on a finite graph 2026-10-06
A real function on a finite connected graph satisfying everywhere is constant. At a maximum graph vertex, the identity forces every graph neighbour to have the same maximum. Connectedness propagates it to every graph vertex. This proves uniqueness of voltage up to an additive constant, and identifies sums of oppositely directed occupation voltages.
Every bounded harmonic function on a graph is constant if the connected locally finite graph is recurrent. Along its random walk on a graph, the harmonic values form a bounded martingale and converge almost surely. Recurrence visits each vertex infinitely often, making every vertex value a subsequential limit of the same convergent sequence. Thus every value agrees.
Mean value of Dirichlet polynomials 2026-10-06
For finite Dirichlet polynomials, has diagonal term . Its off-diagonal error is bounded by . A weighted row-sum estimate further bounds this by .
Harmonic divisor sum Created 2026-10-06 Updated 2026-10-14
Write and . The weighted Dirichlet hyperbola method givesIndeed, use and . The latter follows by comparing each summand with the integral on its unit interval: the derivative of has an integrable tail. Since , substitution yields the expansion. Here is the harmonic number and the Euler--Mascheroni constant.
Vickrey-Clarke-Groves mechanism 2026-10-06
The pivot form chooses a reported-welfare-maximizing allocation and charges each agent the maximum welfare achievable by the others without that agent minus the others' welfare in the chosen allocation. With quasilinear utility, truthful reporting is a dominant strategy because the first term in the payment depends only on other reports. For two identical items and three unit-demand bidders, each winner pays the lowest reported valuation and the loser pays zero.
Revelation principle 2026-10-06
An equilibrium outcome of a mechanism can be reproduced by asking for types and then sending the messages prescribed by the original equilibrium strategies. Truthful reports are then a Bayesian Nash equilibrium: a profitable false report would induce a profitable original deviation. This reduces optimization over indirect mechanisms to direct revelation mechanisms with Bayesian incentive compatibility, under the same information and participation assumptions.
Mostly-plus Dirac convention 2026-10-06
One consistent Dirac equation convention uses , , and . Taking the negatives of the standard mostly-minus gamma matrices, and defining the Dirac adjoint with the new , gives the same physical Dirac action. The positive-frequency plane wave is with , and its equation is . The mass shell is . These signs must be translated together when using a formula stated in another convention.
Massless Dirac equation 2026-10-06
The massless Dirac equation is . The Clifford algebra makes its square the massless wave equation. Quantization of a worldline spin variable as turns its fermionic constraint into this equation.
Adjoint Dirac equation 2026-10-06
Varying the Dirac action with respect to the spinor, rather than its Dirac adjoint, gives the left-acting field equation after integration by parts. Together with the Dirac equation it proves conservation of the vector current.
Lorentz covariance of the Dirac operator Created 2026-10-06 Updated 2026-10-14
A spinor Lorentz matrix satisfies . Combining this identity with the transformed derivative shows that . Thus a Lorentz transformation carries every solution of the Dirac equation to another.
Gordon identity Created 2026-10-06 Updated 2026-10-14
The Gordon identity rewrites a vector-current matrix element between equal-mass on-shell Dirac spinors using a momentum term and an antisymmetric spin term. In the mostly-minus convention , , and , it reads . Derive it by adding the two external Dirac equation identities. The equivalent formula in the mostly-plus Dirac convention is . The identity before division by remains valid for massless equal-mass states.
Graded Dirac bracket 2026-10-06
A Dirac bracket on a graded phase space eliminates second-class constraints while respecting the graded Poisson bracket. The fermionic kinetic term gives . Quantization then gives .
Dirac scalar bilinear 2026-10-06
The Dirac scalar bilinear is invariant under the simultaneous spinor and adjoint transformations because . It is the mass term of the Dirac action. At fixed coordinates it transforms as a scalar field, with an orbital transport term and no spin term.
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