Bruhat decomposition of a BN-pair Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
This is the Bruhat decomposition associated with a BN-pair. The Bruhat decomposition is the disjoint union
associated with a BN-pair.
M/M/1 queue Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
The queue length in an queue is a birth-death process with constant arrival rate and service rate while nonempty.
Birth-death recurrence classification Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
For constant birth rate and death rate away from zero, the chain is transient when , null recurrent when , and positive recurrent when .
Diffusion approximation of a birth-death process Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
For unit jumps with birth and death rates , the Fokker--Planck drift and diffusion in the convention
are and .
Poisson moment closure for a birth-death process Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
Approximating the population law by a Poisson law replaces its first two factorial moments by and , closing a quadratic first-moment equation as a Riccati equation for .
Birth-death master equation Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
For birth rates , death rates , and state probabilities ,
Detailed balance for a birth-death process Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
For birth rates and death rates , a reversible measure satisfies
Thus , and it is an invariant distribution when the resulting measure is summable and the chain is nonexplosive.
Extinction probability of a linear birth-death process Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
For individual birth and death rates and one initial individual, the finite-time extinction probability satisfies
When ,
Yule process Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
The Yule process is the pure birth process with rate in population state . Starting from one individual, it is nonexplosive because the independent holding times have divergent total almost surely.
On a finite measure space, the convergence in the Birkhoff ergodic theorem also holds in . Prove it first for bounded truncations by the dominated convergence theorem, then use the contraction and Fatou lemma to remove the truncation.
Hydrodynamic torque on a fixed disk in planar shear Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
The surface shear stress is
The torque exerted by the fluid on the disk per unit axial length is therefore
Reflected biased random walk on the nonnegative integers Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
Let a discrete-time chain move up with probability and down with probability away from zero, while at zero it moves up with probability and stays with probability . It is transient for , null recurrent for , and positive recurrent for . In the positive-recurrent case its invariant distribution is
and aperiodicity from the self-loop at zero implies convergence to this distribution.
Sum-and-ratio substitution for gamma integrals Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
For , put and . Then and , separating radial gamma and ratio beta integrals.
Fitted-mean balance for logistic regression with an intercept Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
At an interior maximum-likelihood fit of a logistic-regression model containing an intercept, the intercept score function is
Consequently the sum of the fitted probabilities equals the number of observed successes exactly.
Moments of a batch-birth linear-death process Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
For and , the Markov jump-process generator applied to and gives
Consequently
Barycentric subdivision of a tetrahedron Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
The barycentric subdivision of a tetrahedron has f-vector
Its two-skeleton therefore has Euler characteristic and homology , , and .
Reed-Muller bar-product recursion Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
For ,
Consequently
Smooth function with a pointwise vanishing derivative Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
Let and suppose that for every there is an such that . Then is a polynomial.
Generic nowhere-monotone continuous function Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
In with the uniform norm, the continuous functions that are monotone on some interval of positive length form a meagre set. Indeed, it is enough to use intervals with rational endpoints. For each such interval, the nondecreasing and nonincreasing functions form closed sets with empty interior: a sufficiently small local triangular perturbation breaks the relevant inequality. The Baire category theorem therefore shows that a dense set of continuous functions is monotone on no nontrivial interval.
Meagre set Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-06
A meagre, or first-category, set is a countable union of nowhere dense sets.

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