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Gradient blow-up means that a solution stays bounded while the norm of a spatial derivative tends to infinity. In a scalar conservation law this happens as characteristics meet, because the derivative contains the reciprocal of the characteristic-map Jacobian.

For an algebra of functions on a space, evaluation at $x$ is the character ${\delta }_x(f)=f(x)$.

The Gelfand topology on ${\Phi }_A$ is the weak-star topology inherited from $A^{\ast }$, equivalently the coarsest topology making every map $\phi \mapsto \phi (a)$ continuous.

This is the topology on the character space used in the Gelfand representation.

Hyperspherical coordinates extend polar coordinates to $n$ dimensions with one radius and $n-1$ angles.

Polar coordinates use $x=r\cos \theta$, $y=r\sin \theta$ and area element $rdrd\theta$.

For twice differentiable functions,

At zero, $f(x)=\sqrt[3]{x}$ is not differentiable and $g(y)=y^3$ is differentiable, while $g\circ f(x)=x$ has derivative one.

Chain maps $f,g:C\to C^{\prime }$ are chain homotopic when there are maps $h_i:C_i\to C_{i+1}^{\prime }$ such thatChain-homotopic maps induce the same map on homology.

A chain map sends cycles to cycles and boundaries to boundaries, and therefore induces $f_{\ast }:H_i(C)\to H_i(C^{\prime })$ by $[x]\mapsto [f_i(x)]$.

The entropy method combines a coordinatewise certificate with tensorization of entropy to bound the moment-generating function of a certifiable random quantity and hence its tails.

This is an application of Talagrand's concentration inequality to certifiable functions. Talagrand's product-space inequality gives sub-Gaussian-type concentration for a bounded-differences, certifiable function, with a variance scale controlled by the certificate size.

The coefficient of an $(n-1)$-cell in the cellular boundary of an $n$-cell is the degree of the attaching map after collapsing the complement of that $(n-1)$-cell to obtain a map $S^{n-1}\to S^{n-1}$.

A linear contrast is a coefficient-weighted sum of cell means whose coefficients total zero, used to test interpretable differences among groups.

The graph of $f:A\to B$ is the relation represented by $(1_A,f):A\hookrightarrow A\times B$. Its converse is right adjoint to it in the pointwise order on relations.

A rubblising collision shatters a body but does not supply enough energy to disperse its fragments against self-gravity, leaving a gravitationally bound rubble pile.

An object $A$ of a Cartesian closed category is tiny when exponentiation $(-{)}^A$ itself has a right adjoint.

The extra adjunction defining a tiny object should not be confused with the filtered-colimit condition for a compact object (mathematics).

The radial density is proportional to $r^2{e}^{-r^{2n}/(V^{2n/3}{k}_{B}T)}$, whose mode is

The canonical map of an even-degree hyperelliptic curve isso it identifies the two points $(x,y)$ and $(x,-y)$ of a general fibre and is not an embedding.

For $g\ge 2$, a basis of the space of regular differentials defines the canonical map $X\to {\mathbb{P}}^{g-1}$. Equivalently, after choosing a differential with divisor $K$, one may use a basis of $L(K)$.

A smooth plane curve of degree $d$ has genus