Normal modes of three equal masses with a symmetric gap potential Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-18
Let three equal masses move on a circle of radius , and let the potential be with . At equal spacing , angular displacements have a zero-frequency rigid-rotation mode and a two-dimensional sum-zero eigenspace with
The two vibrational modes are degenerate by the permutation symmetry.
Be star Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
A Be star is a rapidly rotating B-type star showing Balmer emission from a circumstellar gaseous decretion disk.
Two-dimensional power-law Debye model Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
For two polarizations, atoms in area , and , mode counting gives
At low temperature its energy scales as and its constant-volume heat capacity as .
Debye frequency Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-18
The Debye frequency is the upper frequency cutoff fixed by equating the continuum mode count to the crystal's number of vibrational degrees of freedom.
Outward escape from the rational potential barrier Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
For , the trajectory beginning at with remains in , and obeys
It enters every strip : otherwise would eventually make the nonnegative energy negative.
Central zero region for odd compactly supported initial velocity Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
If , , and the odd function is supported on , then
The interval then contains the entire support, whose integral vanishes by oddness.
Gaussian curvature of a surface of revolution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
For the parametrization
the Gaussian curvature and area element are
Constant Gaussian curvature surfaces of revolution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
For an arc-length profile with radius , the equation is
Thus gives locally, while gives wherever . At their mean curvatures are respectively
so different choices of give locally noncongruent surfaces with the same constant Gaussian curvature.
Bianchi identity Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
The curvature of a connection satisfies . In a local frame this follows directly by expanding .
Legendre transform of a cumulant-generating function Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
The Legendre transform is the convex function
Reciprocal-lattice peaks of a finite crystal Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
For and ,
For large , each factor is sharply peaked when , exactly the condition .
Critical line Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
The critical line is the symmetry line inside the critical strip.
Coxeter element Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
A Coxeter element is a product of all simple generators in some order. For a finite irreducible Coxeter group, all Coxeter elements are conjugate.
Folding condition Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
For involutory generators, the folding condition requires that simple multiplication never preserve length and that simultaneous left and right ascents either combine to a two-step ascent or fold: if both and have length , then either or .
Standard parabolic subgroup Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-28
For , the standard parabolic subgroup is . Its cosets index faces of a fixed type in the Coxeter complex.
Geometric representation of a Coxeter group Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
For a finite-rank Coxeter system, let have basis and symmetric bilinear form
Its geometric representation sends the generator to the reflection
Reduced expression in a Coxeter group Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
A reduced expression in a Coxeter group has the least possible Coxeter length among expressions in the generators of its Coxeter system.
A reduced expression for is a product of the fewest possible simple generators representing . The number of factors is its Coxeter length .
Coxeter matrix Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
The Coxeter matrix of a Coxeter system is the symmetric matrix whose entry is the order of .
Geometric quotient Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
A geometric quotient has fibers equal to group orbits and carries precisely the invariant regular functions locally on the quotient.
Cox ring Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
The Cox ring of a toric variety is the polynomial ring with one variable for each ray, graded by the divisor class group through .

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