Chemical equilibrium for gives
and charge neutrality gives . Insert the nonrelativistic Maxwell-Boltzmann number densities, use , and neglect the proton correction in the reduced mass. The spin degeneracies cancel in the ground-state approximation. One obtains Saha equation
Equivalently, its reciprocal is the ionization ratio. The exponential favors neutral hydrogen as the temperature falls, while the translational phase-space factor favors ionization at high temperature.
Use a keyhole contour about the negative real axis, indented symmetrically around the pole . The jump of across the cut is determined by the chosen branch, and the small and large circular contributions vanish for . The residue theorem, with the symmetric indentation interpreted as a Cauchy principal value, gives
Splitting the real axis at zero and substituting in the negative part gives two linear relations. Solving them yields, for real ,
Both sides are holomorphic functions of throughout the vertical strip : convergence is locally uniform there, and the trigonometric expressions are holomorphic away from integer poles. The identity theorem therefore extends the identities from real to the whole strip.
For , the delta method with gives
Thus the transformation stabilizes variance at large .
A Gaussian linear model for treats the transformed observations as having additive constant-variance errors and models as linear. A Poisson regression with square-root link retains the Poisson likelihood and models
The two procedures therefore have different likelihoods, fitted means, and constraints; transforming the response is not the same as transforming its conditional mean.
Fix an effective enumeration of register-machine programs. The th register machine is , and its domain
is the th recursively enumerable set. A many-one reduction is a total computable function satisfying . Rice theorem says that every nontrivial property depending only on the computed partial function, or equivalently on an r.e. set in its extensional form, has an undecidable index set.
There is no total equality algorithm: it would decide whether is empty by comparing it with a fixed index for the empty set, contradicting Rice's theorem.
There is no partial algorithm that halts exactly when either. Given , effectively construct an index whose machine enumerates nothing unless halts, after which it enumerates . Then
A semialgorithm for equality with a fixed empty index would enumerate the complement of the halting problem . Since is r.e., both it and its complement would then be r.e., making recursive, a contradiction.

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