Binomial-proportion Fisher scoring Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
For , the score and information are
Consequently one Fisher-scoring step sends every interior starting value directly to the MLE .
Fundamental lemma of the calculus of variations Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
If a continuous function satisfies
for every smooth compactly supported test function , then on .
An integral matrix satisfying makes a module over the Eisenstein integers by letting the primitive cube root act as . This module is finitely generated and torsion-free, hence free. Since the Eisenstein integers have integer rank two, such matrices exist only for ; for that dimension every one is integrally conjugate to
Orthonormal eigenbasis Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
An orthonormal eigenbasis of a linear operator is an orthonormal basis consisting of eigenvectors. Each vector can be reconstructed from its scalar components along those mutually perpendicular unit directions. With the convention that the inner product is linear in its first argument,
The finite-dimensional spectral theorem supplies such a basis for a self-adjoint operator. In its two-dimensional example, the coordinates of are along and along . The operator multiplies those coordinates by and , and reconstruction gives .
Repeated eigenvalues permit different orthonormal choices within one eigenspace, so the basis need not be unique. The spectral projection of a self-adjoint matrix onto that entire eigenspace is unique: it keeps the geometrically meaningful component without choosing individual axes inside it.
E7 Coxeter group Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
The Coxeter graph is the simply-laced seven-vertex tree whose three arms have lengths , , and . Its Coxeter Gram matrix is positive definite and has determinant .
Character group of a finite abelian group Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
The character group consists of the group homomorphisms . Pointwise multiplication makes it a finite abelian group isomorphic to .
Filtered colimits commute with finite limits in sets Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
In the Category of sets, filtered colimits commute with finite limits. Elements in a finite limiting diagram involve only finitely many representatives and finitely many equalities, all of which can be realized at one common stage of a filtered diagram.
Weakly filtered category Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-06
A category is weakly filtered when every finite connected diagram in it admits a cocone. Equivalently, each of its connected components is a filtered category.
Scheme-theoretic fiber Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
For a morphism of schemes and a point , the scheme-theoretic fiber is the fiber product . It remembers multiplicities and nilpotents that the underlying set-theoretic inverse image cannot detect.
Its underlying fiber is enriched with local-ring and multiplicity information.
Fermi sea Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-18
The Fermi sea is the zero-temperature many-fermion quantum state with every one-particle state below the Fermi energy occupied and every state above it empty. For a uniform isotropic Fermi gas, the occupied region in momentum space is a solid sphere; its boundary is the Fermi surface. These are momenta, not positions: filling the sphere does not put the particles in a ball in ordinary space. Opposite momentum contributions cancel, so the gas at rest has zero total momentum even though its total kinetic energy is positive.
The filled states are forced upward in energy by the Pauli exclusion principle. This is different from the zero-point energy of one particle confined by a boundary. At fixed number density, the Fermi energy remains positive as the box grows to the thermodynamic limit, while the lowest box confinement energy tends to zero. Low-energy excitations move particles from occupied states near the Fermi surface into nearby empty states; deep states have no nearby available destination. This explains why only a small fraction of Electrons contribute to the low-temperature electron heat capacity.[ref]
Dispersion relation after fast-inhibitor elimination Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
For activator diffusion , local linear decay , and coupling , eliminating the fast inhibitor gives
Its pattern-forming threshold is
Geodesic polar coordinates Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
Choose an orthonormal basis of and put . Away from the centre and cut locus,
defines geodesic polar coordinates centred at .
Normal neighbourhood Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
A normal neighbourhood of is the diffeomorphic image under of a star-shaped neighbourhood of in . In a sufficiently small normal ball, radial geodesics from uniquely minimize length.
Domain of the exponential map Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
The domain of is the star-shaped open set
Smooth dependence for ordinary differential equations makes smooth on its open domain in .
Geometric sum of exponential variables Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
If is geometric on with parameter , independently of unit-rate exponential variables , then
is exponential with rate . Its moment-generating function is for .
Competing exponential clocks Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
For independent exponential variables of rates and , let and let be the minimizing index. Then
Consequently is exponential with rate , , and and are independent.
Uniform ratio of independent exponential variables Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
If and are independent exponential variables with the same rate, then is uniform on and is independent of .
Memorylessness of the exponential distribution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
If , then
Thus an exponential remaining lifetime has the same law regardless of the elapsed lifetime.
Risk-neutral measure for the Black-Scholes model Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
For , shifting Brownian drift by
makes under an equivalent martingale measure . The discounted stock is then a martingale.
Suppose a transient nearest-neighbour jump chain on has uniformly bounded expected visits to each state and the holding rate at grows geometrically. Then
so the continuous-time chain explodes almost surely.

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