Photon-baryon sound speed Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-06
Tidal stripping Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-28
Tidal stripping removes satellite material outside the tidal radius. The resulting mass loss weakens dynamical friction and can greatly delay or prevent a merger.
Thue-Siegel rational approximation bound Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
If a real algebraic number has degree , then for every there are only finitely many reduced fractions such thatThe Thue-Siegel auxiliary polynomial proof chooses two such approximations, constructs an auxiliary polynomial nonzero at their pair, and compares its denominator lower bound with the upper bound supplied by its high-order zero at .
Rational multiplicity bound for a linear auxiliary polynomial Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
Let with linearly independent, , and . For every , if a reduced rational has sufficiently large denominator in terms of and , then has multiplicity at most at , for every fixed real .
Indeed, the nonzero Wronskianhas degree below and height at most . A zero of multiplicity of forces a zero of multiplicity at least of . By Gauss lemma for polynomials, then divides in , so divides the leading coefficient of and is at most .
Isopycnal displacement Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-05
An isopycnal displacement is the vertical displacement of a constant-density surface. In linear stratified quasi-geostrophic flow,
Quasi-geostrophic vertical mode Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
A quasi-geostrophic vertical mode separates horizontal and vertical dependence of the streamfunction. With rigid horizontal boundaries and constant stratification, the vertical eigenfunctions are .
Canonical energy fluctuation Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
Fourier's law Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
Fourier's law predicts the local conductive heat flux from the local temperature gradient. In a continuum approximation with isotropic thermal conductivity , its vector form and one-dimensional form areThe heat flux has units , the temperature gradient has units and the thermal conductivity has units . The rate of heat transfer has units . These units distinguish a local material response from the total power crossing a surface.
The minus sign makes heat flow toward lower temperature: for , . In the worked bar in thermal conduction, therefore gives . Reversing the end temperatures reverses the heat flux. A zero temperature gradient gives zero conductive heat flux in this model.
Fourier's law is a constitutive relation expressing measured material behavior; it is not a consequence of conservation of energy alone. It applies locally and does not require a steady state. The straight-line bar solution additionally assumes constant thermal conductivity, constant cross-sectional area, no sources or side losses, and fixed end temperatures. Anisotropic materials require the directional response described by the thermal conductivity tensor. The scalar used in the examples expresses the stated isotropy assumption. [ref]
https://web.mit.edu/16.unified/www/FALL/thermodynamics/notes/node116.html. E. M. Greitzer, Z. S. Spakovszky and I. A. Waitz, MIT Thermodynamics and Propulsion, section 16.2: Fourier's law and thermal conductivity
Historically, Joseph Fourier's Théorie analytique de la chaleur was published in 1822. In Chapter II, article 112, he writes the heat crossing a spherical surface as the product of thermal conductivity, elapsed time, surface area and the negative radial temperature gradient; article 113 balances the incoming and outgoing heat to obtain the heat equation for a sphere. The enduring idea is this connection between a local flow rule and a global prediction of changing temperature. [ref]
https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Théorie_analytique_de_la_chaleur. Joseph Fourier, Théorie analytique de la chaleur, Firmin Didot, 1822
[ref]https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Théorie_analytique_de_la_chaleur/Chapitre_2. Fourier, 1822, Chapter II, articles 112–113
Temperature gradient Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
The temperature gradient is the gradient of the temperature field. It points in the direction of fastest temperature increase.
Tensor product and infinite direct product Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
Tensor product need not commute with an infinite direct product. For example,The element has infinite order in the product, so it survives rational localization.
Tensor-hom adjunction Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
Universal property of the tensor product of modules Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
Balanced map Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
Symmetric square Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-06
Exterior square Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
Einstein notation Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
Einstein notation sums automatically over an index repeated once up and once down, or twice in Euclidean coordinates.
Isotropic tensor Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
An isotropic tensor is invariant under every proper orthogonal change of basis. A rank-four isotropic tensor has the formRank-five isotropic pseudotensors are formed by multiplying one Kronecker delta by one Levi-Civita symbol and permuting the five indices.
Totally antisymmetric tensor Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-18
A tensor changes sign whenever two indices are interchanged. In three dimensions, a rank-two antisymmetric tensor is , a rank-three one is , and every totally antisymmetric tensor of rank greater than three vanishes.
Antisymmetric second-rank tensor Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-06
A second-rank Cartesian tensor is antisymmetric when its components form a skew-symmetric matrix, . Orthogonal coordinate changes preserve this property because implies .
Covariant tensor Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
A covariant tensor is multilinear in vector arguments and transforms with one covariant index for each argument.
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