Rank-one operator Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
For vectors in a Hilbert space, the rank-one operator has and .
Operator trace Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
For a trace-class operator, the series converges absolutely and is independent of the orthonormal basis. It satisfies .
The trace-class operator condition makes this operator trace well-defined; the class of eligible operators and the trace functional are distinct concepts.
Hilbert-Schmidt factorization of a trace-class operator Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
An operator is trace class exactly when it factors as with and Hilbert--Schmidt. The factors can be chosen so that by using the polar decomposition of a bounded operator.
Star subdivision Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
This operation is a fan subdivision. A star subdivision inserts a ray through a lattice point in a cone and subdivides every cone containing that point. It induces a proper birational toric morphism.
Basepoint-free divisor Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-05
A divisor is basepoint-free when its global sections have no common zero. Its complete linear system therefore defines a Kodaira map everywhere.
Lattice polytope of a toric divisor Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
For an invariant divisor , its lattice polytope is
Its lattice points index torus-character sections of the associated line bundle.
Toric divisor class sequence Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
For a toric variety whose rays span , the divisor class group is computed by
where .
Principal divisor on a toric variety Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
For a character of the dense torus,
Dynamical-friction stalling by tidal stripping Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-28
Dynamical-friction stalling by tidal stripping occurs when inward motion shrinks a satellite's tidal radius so rapidly that its remaining mass and frictional drag tend to zero before it reaches the host center.
Euler class of a vector bundle Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
The Euler class of an oriented rank- vector bundle is the pullback of its Thom class along the zero section. Over it equals the top Stiefel-Whitney class.
Thom isomorphism theorem Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-07
For an -oriented rank- vector bundle, multiplication by the Thom class gives isomorphisms
Cylindrical-helix tangency construction Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
A circular helix on a circular cylinder has radial ambient acceleration and is therefore a geodesic. Any surface tangent to the cylinder along that helix has the same curve as a geodesic.
One-step Szlenk derivation for a separable dual Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
If is separable and is a nonempty weak-star closed subset of , then is a proper subset of for every . Metrizability produces sequences witnessing membership in the derivative, while a Baire-category argument applied to a universal weakly null sequence yields the strict inclusion.
Symplectic basis Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
A symplectic basis organizes a nondegenerate alternating bilinear form into independent pairs. Let be a finite-dimensional vector space over a field , with a nondegenerate bilinear form satisfying for every vector . Its dimension is even, say , and a symplectic basis is an ordered basis such that
Here is the Kronecker delta. Each is a hyperbolic pair; different pairs have zero mutual pairing. These conventions apply in every characteristic. In characteristic two, , but the condition is still essential: a symmetric bilinear form need not be an alternating bilinear form. The existence theorem and the characteristic caveat are given in Bilinear Forms by Keith Conrad (Keith Conrad, Bilinear Forms, §1, Theorem 1.6; §5, Theorems 5.1 and 5.4 and Definition 5.3).
The benefit is a common coordinate language for every symplectic vector space of the same finite dimension over the same field. The span of all , and separately of all , is a Lagrangian subspace; each paired span is a symplectic subspace. In Hamiltonian mechanics, the corresponding pairing of position and momentum coordinates describes phase space and canonical transformations. On a symplectic manifold, a symplectic basis describes one tangent space; Darboux coordinates additionally describe a whole local neighborhood.[ref]
Three-card threshold-sum zero-sum game Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
For
both players optimally choose cards with probabilities , and the row player's expected payoff is .
Support vector Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
A support vector is a training observation on or inside the fitted margin; it has a nonzero dual coefficient and can affect the fitted boundary.
Support-vector-machine margin Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
For a linear support vector machine, the geometric margin lies between and and has width .
Support-vector-machine decision boundary Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
For a linear score , the decision boundary is .
Slack variables of a support vector machine Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
The slack variables satisfy and quantify margin violations.
Power method with a dominant eigenvalue cluster Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
When several eigenvalues share the largest modulus, normalized power iterates need not converge individually, but every limit lies in their joint invariant subspace.

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