Simplicial mapping space Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
The simplicial mapping space is defined by
If is a monomorphism and is a Kan complex, restriction is a Kan fibration.
Kan complex Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
A Kan complex is a simplicial set in which every simplicial horn, including every outer horn, has a filler.
Quasicategory Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
Standard simplex Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
The standard simplicial -simplex is the representable simplicial set
Normalized chain complex of a simplicial abelian group Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
For a simplicial abelian group , one convention for normalized chains is
Equivalently, it is the quotient of the unnormalized chain complex by its degenerate subcomplex.
Simultaneous returns of independent simple random walks Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
For independent symmetric walks on , the probability that all are at the origin at time is
The Borel-Cantelli lemmas therefore show that simultaneous returns occur only finitely often almost surely when .
Expected visits to the origin by a simple random walk Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
For the symmetric walk and ,
Since the central binomial coefficient satisfies , this expectation is of order .
Eigenvalue sensitivity Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
For unit left eigenvector and right eigenvector of a real matrix at a simple eigenvalue , its normwise sensitivity is
It measures the first-order amplification of a matrix perturbation into an eigenvalue perturbation.
Sidorenko inequality for trees Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
Every tree satisfies the Sidorenko conjecture. If a bipartite host graph has edge density , then a uniformly random bipartition-respecting map from a -vertex tree into the host is a graph homomorphism with probability at least .
Ordinal partition bound Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
If an ordinal is partitioned into two copies of type , its type is below ; two copies do not always give a strict bound.
Long exact sequence in homology Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
The connecting map sends a homology class in the quotient complex to the class obtained by lifting a representative, applying the middle differential, and identifying the result in the subcomplex.
Cosmological caustic Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
A cosmological caustic is the image of a singular point of the Lagrangian map. The ideal collisionless density diverges there, although velocity dispersion and other small-scale physics regularize the singularity.
Mayer-Vietoris sequence for sheaf cohomology Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
For , the short exact sequence of sheaves obtained by restricting to , , and induces a long exact sequence
Čech cohomology Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
For an open cover , the Čech cochain group is
with the alternating sum of restrictions as differential. Its cohomology is the Čech cohomology of with respect to .
Flasque sheaf Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
A sheaf is flasque when every restriction map is surjective. Flasque sheaves are acyclic for global sections, so for .
Euclidean invariance of the shape operator Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
For a proper Euclidean motion of Euclidean three-space , transport the unit normal by . The corresponding shape operators are orthogonally conjugate:
Their determinant and trace, hence Gaussian curvature and mean curvature, are unchanged.
Principal curvature Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
At a point of a smooth surface, a normal section of a surface can bend by different amounts depending on its tangent vector. The principal curvatures are the largest and smallest signed normal curvatures among unit tangent vectors. Equivalently they are the two eigenvalues of the shape operator, with an orthonormal basis of corresponding principal directions. Here the labels follow the selected directions, without requiring . [ref]
For a unit tangent vector making angle with , Euler formula for normal curvature gives
The normal curvature is a weighted average of the principal curvatures; the extremes occur in the principal directions. If the principal curvatures coincide, every direction in the tangent plane is a principal direction: this is an umbilical point. The Gaussian curvature and mean curvature summarize the pair by
For an outward-oriented sphere of radius , both principal curvatures are , so the normal curvature is in every direction. For an outward-oriented circular cylinder, choose around the circumference and along the axis. The principal curvatures are , giving ; halfway between the principal directions, .
At the origin of the upward-oriented hyperbolic paraboloid , the principal directions are the coordinate axes and the principal curvatures are in the chosen length unit. Thus , with zero normal curvature at . Zero normal curvature in these directions coexists with Gaussian curvature : the shape operator is not zero. The mean curvature is zero at this point; this does not say that the whole hyperbolic paraboloid is a minimal surface.
Figure 1.
Directional normal curvature on a sphere, cylinder, and saddle with the convention S=-dN
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Each graph uses angle in the tangent plane, measured from the indicated first principal direction. The sphere and circular cylinder have ; the saddle graph refers only to the origin. Reversing the unit normal reflects each normal curvature graph through zero, negates both principal curvatures and the mean curvature, and preserves their product, the Gaussian curvature.
Real cubic subfield of the seventh cyclotomic field Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
The unique cubic subfield is the maximal real subfield
and
It is the fixed field of complex conjugation.
Quadratic Gaussian period in the seventh cyclotomic field Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
The unique quadratic subfield of is
The conjugate period is , and
Finite-dimensional separation of open convex sets Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
If finitely many open convex subsets of a locally convex space have empty intersection, some continuous linear map preserves that fact: .

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