Jeans instability Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
Jeans instability is the gravitational growth of density perturbations whose self-gravity overcomes pressure support. For physical sound speed , the comoving threshold is
Modes with grow gravitationally, whereas modes with undergo pressure-supported acoustic oscillations.
Sample variance Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
For observations , the unbiased sample variance is
For independent identically distributed observations with finite variance , it converges in probability to .
Periodic KdV transfer matrix Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-29
For real periodic KdV data, translation by one period acts on a conjugate basis of scattering solutions by
Lax compatibility gives for the matrix of on the eigenspace. Hence is conserved.
Trace invariants of a Lax equation Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
If
then every positive power has constant trace:
The final equality is the cyclic property of the matrix trace.
Non-isolated singularity Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
A singularity is non-isolated when every punctured neighbourhood contains another singularity. An accumulation point of poles or essential singularities cannot itself be classified as a removable singularity, pole, or isolated essential singularity.
Classification of isolated singularities Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
An isolated singularity is removable, a pole, or essential according as its Laurent principal part has zero, finitely many nonzero, or infinitely many nonzero terms.
Noetherian Zariski topology Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
The Zariski topology on affine space is Noetherian because polynomial rings are Noetherian. Every closed subset is a finite union of irreducible closed subsets: a minimal counterexample would split into two smaller closed subsets, each already having such a decomposition.
Irreducible component Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-05
An irreducible component is a maximal irreducible closed subset. Every algebraic variety is a finite union of its irreducible components.
Irreducible complex representations of a finite dihedral group Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
For , every irreducible complex representation has degree at most two. If is an eigenvector of with eigenvalue , then has eigenvalue , so irreducibility makes the representation equal to .
Eigenvalue orbit under conjugation Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
If conjugation sends an operator to its inverse, the conjugating element sends its -eigenspace to the -eigenspace.
Reducibility criterion after Frobenius substitution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
Under the same hypotheses, is reducible exactly when every coefficient of is a th power in . If , then
Conversely, if is reducible, all its irreducible factors are separable. Its zero derivative forces every factor multiplicity to be divisible by , so it is a th power in and all its coefficients are th powers.
Inverse sine Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
Tangency at a Lyapunov boundary Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-29
A boundary point with can still enter the sublevel set; LaSalle analysis decides whether it belongs to an invariant zero-derivative trajectory.
Lindeberg replacement method Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
The Lindeberg replacement method, inspired by the Lindeberg condition, compares functions of two independent random vectors by replacing their coordinates one at a time. Matching moments cancel the corresponding terms in a Taylor expansion.
Connect-the-dots interval map Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
For prescribed values at ordered points , the connect-the-dots interval map is the unique piecewise linear function obtained by linear interpolation between consecutive data points.
Interval covering relation Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
For closed intervals and , write under when . The intermediate value theorem implies that there is a closed subinterval with .
Periodic point of an interval map Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
A point is periodic for an interval map when for some positive integer . Its least such is its period, and the finite set
is its periodic orbit.
For an interval map, this is the usual periodic point condition. Its least positive return time is the period.
Normal bundle Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
For a smooth closed embedding , the normal bundle fits into .
Degree of a projective scheme Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
For a pure -dimensional projective scheme , its degree is times the leading coefficient of its Hilbert polynomial, equivalently .
Chern class Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
Chern classes are characteristic classes of vector bundles satisfying functoriality and the Whitney product formula for a short exact sequence.

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