Reed-Muller bar-product recursion Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
Smooth function with a pointwise vanishing derivative Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
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
Nowhere dense set Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-06
Isolated points in a countable complete metric space Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
Every nonempty countable complete metric space has an isolated point. Otherwise it is the countable union of its singleton subsets, each of which is nowhere dense, contradicting the Baire category theorem.
If such a space has infinitely many points, it has infinitely many isolated points. Indeed, after deleting any finite collection of isolated points, the remaining set is closed, complete, countable, and nonempty. It therefore has a point isolated in the remaining space; because the deleted set is finite, that point is also isolated in the original space.
Closed convex absorbing set has an origin neighbourhood Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
Baire space Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-29
A Baire space is a topological space in which every countable intersection of open dense sets is dense, equivalently one in which no nonempty open set is a countable union of nowhere-dense sets. Every compact Hausdorff space and every complete metric space is a Baire space.
Magnetocentrifugal acceleration Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
Magnetocentrifugal acceleration occurs when matter tied to a rotating inclined magnetic field moves outward under the effective centrifugal force. For a Keplerian disc, cold launching is possible when the field tilts by more than from the vertical.
Alfvén surface Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-28
An Alfvén surface is where the poloidal flow speed equals the poloidal Alfvén speed. Smooth passage through it imposes a regularity condition relating field-line angular velocity and angular momentum.
Magnetohydrodynamic angular-momentum invariant Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
The total specific angular momentum transported by matter and magnetic stress isand is constant on each magnetic surface.
Field-line angular velocity Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
Magnetohydrodynamic mass loading Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
Poloidal magnetic flux function Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
Average treatment effect on the treated Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
The average treatment effect on the treated is .
Rigid first-order structure Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
A first-order structure is rigid when its identity map is its only automorphism. Every finite linear order is rigid, whereas is nonrigid because every translation is an order automorphism.
Rigidity here means absence of nonidentity automorphisms of a first-order structure; it does not assert the mechanical rigidity of a rod-and-hinge framework.
Faithful automorphism action Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
A family of automorphisms satisfying defines a group action. It is faithful exactly when distinct indices define distinct automorphisms, equivalently when embeds in the automorphism group.
First-order axiomatization of an automorphism Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-28
After adjoining a unary function symbol , injectivity, surjectivity, preservation of each operation, and preservation in both directions of each relation form an axiom scheme whose models interpret as an automorphism.
Hilbert-Samuel polynomial Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
For an -primary ideal in a Noetherian local ring, agrees for all sufficiently large with the Hilbert-Samuel polynomial of .
Pole dimension of an associated graded ring Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-05
For a Noetherian local ring , the pole dimension is the order of the pole at ofThe Hilbert-Serre theorem makes this series rational, so the order is defined.
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