Łoś theorem Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
This theorem characterizes truth in an ultraproduct. Łoś's theorem says that a first-order formula holds in an ultraproduct exactly when it holds in a set of factors belonging to the ultrafilter.
Method of types Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
The method of types combines two facts: there are few possible empirical distributions, and strings within each type class are equiprobable under an independent and identically distributed source. Information entropy determines how many strings share a frequency profile; relative entropy determines how unlikely that profile is under a specified source law. The connection is useful both for lossless source coding and for understanding rare observations.
The following formulas use natural logarithms, so information entropy and relative entropy are measured in nats. Define
Here is the source probability mass function and is an attainable empirical distribution. Use ; first assume every . Base-two logarithms give the equivalent formulas with and .
Linking form of a branched cover Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
For a rational homology three-sphere , the linking form is the nonsingular pairing
Reversing the orientation of negates this form.
Here the paired elements lie in the torsion subgroup of first homology.
Boundary layer over a linearly stretching sheet Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
For a sheet moving with through otherwise stationary fluid, the layer thickness is . With
the boundary-layer equations reduce to
The exact solution is .
The twisted cubic is a nondegenerate projective variety, so every hypersurface containing it has degree at least two. At least two hypersurfaces are needed to cut out a curve in , making their degree product at least four rather than the curve's degree three.
Nondegenerate projective variety Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
A projective variety is nondegenerate when it is contained in no hyperplane of its ambient projective space.
Zeeman theorem on twist-spun knots Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
Zeeman's theorem says that the complement of an -twist spin fibers over the circle with fiber the punctured -fold cyclic branched cover of the original knot. In particular, the - and -twist spins are unknotted.
This identifies the complement structure of a twist-spun knot.
No-retraction covering principle Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
A closed-cover intersection statement for a simplex is equivalent to the nonexistence of a boundary-valued map that preserves every face.
Distance-function barycentric map Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
Normalized distances to three closed sets give continuous barycentric coordinates; a covering forces at least one coordinate to vanish, placing the image on the simplex boundary.
Equilateral triangle Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
Acute triangle Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-29
An acute triangle has all three interior angles strictly smaller than a right angle.
Anti-trapped surface Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-06
An anti-trapped surface is the time reverse of a trapped surface: both future-directed orthogonal null expansions are positive.
Scalar conservation law Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
A scalar conservation law in one space dimension has the form . While a classical solution exists, it obeys the quasilinear transport equation .
Linear transport equation Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
A linear transport equation has a prescribed velocity field and is linear in the transported unknown.
Characteristic curve Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-06
For the transport field , a characteristic curve solves
The chain rule converts differentiation of into the transport operator applied to .
Lorenz gauge in linearized gravity Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
The Lorenz condition reduces the vacuum field equation to . A plane-wave amplitude therefore satisfies and .
Ricci curvature sourced by a Klein-Gordon scalar field Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
For the conserved scalar stress tensor above,
Toric variety Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
A toric variety is obtained by gluing the affine toric varieties associated with the cones of a fan . It contains an algebraic torus as a dense open orbit.
Fan in toric geometry Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
A fan in toric geometry is a finite collection of rational strongly convex cones in toric geometry in a real vector space with a lattice, closed under taking faces of a polyhedral cone, such that the intersection of two cones is a face of each. A fan determines a toric variety.
A fan in is a finite collection of strictly convex rational polyhedral cones closed under taking faces, such that the intersection of two cones is a face of each.
Algebraic torus Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
An algebraic torus of dimension is an algebraic group isomorphic over the base field to . Its character and cocharacter lattices are dual free abelian groups and .

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