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For independent $U_1,U_2\sim \mathrm{Uniform}(0,1)$, the sum has triangular densityIts upper tail for $1\le c\le 2$ is $(2-c{)}^2/2$.

An ultrametric space is a metric space whose metric satisfies the ultrametric inequality. The rational numbers with $d_p(x,y)=|x-y{|}_p$, and their P-adic number completion, are examples. Their geometry organizes points into nested clusters rather than measuring separation along a number line.

For integers $a,b$ and $k\ge 0$, the definition of the P-adic valuation givesThus a closed ball of radius $p^{-k}$ in the integers is a congruence class modulo $p^k$. In the p-adic integers the same closed ball is $a+p^k{\mathbb{Z}}_p$. More shared low-order digits mean a smaller p-adic absolute value of the difference.

The binary tree first splits the sixteen integers into even and odd congruence classes, then refines modulo $4$, $8$, and $16$. Each node fixes one more low-order digit. The leaves $5$ and $13$ share the class $5$ modulo $8$, then separate modulo $16$, so their distance is exactly $1/8$. The leaves are deliberately ordered by their low-order digits; horizontal spacing and edge lengths are layout choices, not the metric. The singleton leaves describe this finite sample; a congruence class modulo $16$ in all p-adic integers remains infinite.

The ultrametric inequality also explains the unusual behavior of balls. Every point of an open ball can serve as its center: if $d(a,b)<r$, then $d(a,x)<r$ if and only if $d(b,x)<r$. Two open balls that intersect are nested, since a point of their intersection serves as a common center and their radii can be compared. The same nesting rule holds for closed balls and for a pair consisting of one open ball and one closed ball.

Every open ball is a clopen set. For a point $y$ outside $B(a,r)$, the open ball $B(y,d(a,y))$ stays outside $B(a,r)$: if $d(y,z)<d(a,y)$, the ultrametric inequality forces $d(a,z)=d(a,y)\ge r$. Hence the complement is an open set. Also every closed ball of positive radius is an open set, because $B(b,r)$ lies in the closed ball of radius $r$ around $a$ whenever $d(a,b)\le r$. A radius-zero closed ball is a singleton and need not be an open set. Distinct points can therefore be separated by a clopen set, proving that an ultrametric space is totally disconnected. These ball properties turn distance thresholds into a hierarchy of compatible clusters. ^[ref]

Quantifier elimination for dense linear orders shows that the one-types over $\mathbb{N}\subset \mathbb{Q}$ are determined by cuts: equality to a natural number, one of the intervals between consecutive natural numbers, the ray below zero, or the cut above every natural number. Only the last type is non-isolated.

A complete type $p\in S_n(A)$ is isolated when some formula $\phi \in p$ belongs to no other complete type in $S_n(A)$. Equivalently, the basic open set determined by $\phi$ is the singleton $\{p\}$.

If $q\equiv 3(\mathrm{mod}8)$ is prime and $h(-8q)=2$, then for every prime $p>q$,for some integers $x,y$ exactly when $p\equiv \pm 1(\mathrm{mod}8)$ and $p$ is a quadratic residue modulo $q$.

For $D_8=⟨r,s:r^4=s^2=1,srs=r^{-1}⟩$, the matricesdefine a faithful irreducible two-dimensional complex representation.

When the density of states is constant and the chemical potential is fixed at $E_F$, the thermal gain above $E_F$ cancels the thermal depletion below it after the energy range is extended to the whole real line. The finite lower edge leaves only an exponentially small correction of order $e^{-\beta E_F}$.

The substitutionreduces $C_t=k\nabla \cdot (C\nabla C)+aC$ to
$G_{\tau }=k\nabla \cdot (G\nabla G)$.

A stellar system is collisional on a timescale of interest when its two-body relaxation time is shorter than that timescale, so discrete encounters materially alter its distribution function.

The Coulomb logarithm $\log \Lambda =\log (b_{\max }/b_{\min })$ collects the logarithmically equal contributions of gravitational encounters over a wide range of impact parameters. For a self-gravitating system of $N$ comparable stars, $\Lambda$ is of order $N$.

Let a stable two-species reaction equilibrium have Jacobianand diffusion matrix $\mathrm{diag}(D_u,D_v)$. A mode with $q=k^2$ has determinantSince its trace decreases with $q$, diffusion-driven instability occurs exactly when

Adding a nonbasic edge to a transportation tree creates one cycle; alternating equal additions and subtractions around it preserves every row and column sum.

For transportation potentials, the reduced cost is ${\bar{c}}_{ij}=c_{ij}-u_i-v_j$; a negative value identifies an improving entering cell.

The northwest-corner method repeatedly allocates the smaller remaining supply and demand in the current top-left cell to construct an initial transportation basis.

The positive cells of a nondegenerate transportation basis form a spanning tree in the bipartite graph of supply and demand vertices.

If each coordinate law satisfies the same convex transport-entropy inequality, then the product law satisfies the sum-cost version. Sequentially couple conditional coordinates, apply Jensen inequality, and use the chain rule for relative entropy.

For a finite-state continuous-time Markov chain with Q-matrix $Q$, the backward and forward equations are $P^{\prime }(t)=QP(t)$ and $P^{\prime }(t)=P(t)Q$, respectively.

A last-exit decomposition partitions a transient path event according to the final visit to a finite set. Reversing the finite path before that visit and using detailed balance converts last-exit probabilities into hitting probabilities weighted by an equilibrium measure of a finite set.

For a finite vertex set $A$, its equilibrium potential is $h_A(x)=P_x(H_A<\infty )$. It equals one on $A$, is harmonic off $A$, and belongs to the Dirichlet energy space with zero boundary at infinity.

For the walk on a weighted graph, the Green function normalized by vertex weight isSymmetry of the conductances makes $g(x,y)=g(y,x)$, and $\mathcal{E}(g(\cdot ,y),f)=f(y)$ for finitely supported $f$.