Improper integration by truncation Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
For a nonnegative unbounded function, one truncation convention sets and asks that every be Riemann integrable and that have a finite limit as .
Darboux sum Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
A lower Darboux sum uses the infimum of a function on each partition interval, while an upper sum uses the supremum.
Riemann integrability criterion Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
A bounded function is Riemann integrable exactly when for every some partition satisfies .
Riemann integral Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
Total variation of a function Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-18
The total variation of a function measures its accumulated rises and falls, rather than just its change between the endpoints. For each partition of an interval , add the absolute values of its sampled increments. Then take the supremum over all such partitions of an interval:
The function has bounded variation when . This definition uses its value at every point of the interval, including both endpoints.[ref]
For a nondecreasing function, all increments are nonnegative and the sum telescopes to . More generally, the triangle inequality gives . Equality can fail dramatically when the function changes direction: an object can travel a long distance and finish near its starting position. Here we measure movement of the function's value; arc length of its function graph also includes horizontal movement.
Continuous approximation of a Riemann-integrable function Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
Every Riemann-integrable function on a compact interval can be approximated in by continuous functions. Consequently their integrals converge uniformly over all subintervals.
Riemann sum Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
For a tagged partition with , the corresponding Riemann sum is
Its limits over increasingly fine partitions define the Riemann integral.
Schur theorem in pseudo-Riemannian geometry Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
In dimension greater than two, if sectional curvature is pointwise independent of the two-plane, the contracted Bianchi identity forces that curvature to be constant on each connected component.
The positive-definite specialization is Schur's lemma.
Contracted Bianchi identity Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
The Ricci tensor and scalar satisfy .
Ricci tensor in two dimensions Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-07
The algebraic symmetries of the Riemann curvature tensor leave only one independent curvature component in two dimensions and force
Consequently the Einstein tensor vanishes identically.
Drude response Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
A Drude response has a single relaxation pole, . Causality places the pole in the lower half plane when .
Spectral function Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
The spectral function records the weighted energy differences connected by an operator. With the convention , it is proportional to .
Circular restricted three-body problem Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
In the circular restricted three-body problem the two massive bodies move on circular orbits about their barycentre. The problem is autonomous in their uniformly rotating frame.
Sperm number Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-06
The sperm number compares filament length with an elastohydrodynamic penetration length. For periodic forcing at angular frequency , the usual convention is
Its fourth power is a viscous-to-bending ratio on the full filament length. In steady cross-flow problems a different convention also occurs: , where is flow speed and the filament bending modulus. The defining formula distinguishes these conventions.
Reproducing-kernel Hilbert space of a stationary Gaussian process Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
If a stationary Gaussian process has covariance spectral density , its reproducing-kernel Hilbert space has norm
on the functions for which this integral is finite.
Kernel trick Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
The kernel trick evaluates inner products of feature map outputs through without explicitly constructing those vectors. An algorithm expressed entirely through these inner products can therefore operate on nonlinear derived coordinates using only evaluations of a positive-semidefinite kernel on the original inputs. A classifier linear in the derived coordinates can have a nonlinear boundary in the original coordinates.
The polynomial kernel gives a finite, fully visible example: corresponds to . The XOR separation by a product feature below makes the interaction coordinate useful, while dual prediction with a kernel shows how to predict without calculating it explicitly.
An arbitrary score called a similarity need not be a positive-semidefinite kernel. Symmetry alone, even with nonnegative entries, is insufficient: the symmetric matrix
has for , so it cannot be a Gram matrix of real inner products. A positive-semidefinite kernel requires a positive semidefinite matrix for every finite choice of inputs, not just the observed training data.[ref] The existing Moore-Aronszajn theorem connects this requirement to a Reproducing kernel Hilbert space; this example needs only finite linear algebra.
Kernel covariance operator Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
For feature vectors , the empirical uncentered kernel covariance operator is
Moore-Aronszajn theorem Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
Every positive-semidefinite kernel has a Hilbert-space feature map satisfying , and determines a unique reproducing-kernel Hilbert space.
Representer theorem Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
The representer theorem reduces regularized optimization over a reproducing-kernel Hilbert space to the span of kernel sections at the observed points.
Clebsch-Gordan decomposition for SU2 Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-06
For ,
The identity follows by multiplying the weight characters and comparing their nested weight strings.

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