Pi-2 set Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
A set is in when membership can be written with one universal block followed by one existential block over a computable predicate. Equivalently, in the word-function formulation, there is a partial computable such that
Sigma-1 set Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
A set is in exactly when it is the domain of a partial computable function. Equivalently, there is a computable predicate such that
Sigma-1 formula Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
A formula is equivalent to with bounded. A formula is equivalent to with bounded.
Integer residue of a logarithmic derivative Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
If is holomorphic and nonvanishing on a punctured disc, then
is the integer winding number of about zero. If it equals , the logarithmic derivative of has a removable singularity at zero.
Rouché's theorem Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
If are holomorphic near the closure of a bounded domain and on its boundary, then and have the same number of interior zeros, counted with multiplicity. Apply the argument principle to the zero-free boundary homotopy .
Self-financing portfolio Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-06
A portfolio is self-financing when every change in its asset holdings is paid for entirely by selling or buying assets within the portfolio, with no external cash added or removed.
Anyon condensation at a boundary Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
An anyon condenses at a boundary when its string operator may terminate there without leaving an excitation, so the boundary can absorb or emit that anyon.
Mutual semion Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-28
Two particle types are mutual semions when taking either once around the other multiplies the state by .
Angular momentum of a complex-coordinate Gaussian state Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
If in two dimensions, then and . Orthogonality therefore makes the angular-momentum expectation of equal to for normalized coefficients.
Areal velocity Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
Areal velocity measures how fast a position vector from a chosen origin sweeps signed swept area. It connects a geometric picture of motion to angular momentum: a long position vector with slow transverse motion can sweep the same area per unit time as a short one with fast transverse motion. Constancy requires a dynamical condition, given by the torque criterion for constant areal velocity.
Choose a fixed origin in an inertial frame and a fixed plane through , with constant unit vector normal to it. For a differentiable trajectory in that plane, let be position relative to and its velocity. Positive swept area follows the right-hand rule about . In positively oriented Cartesian coordinates in the plane, and in plane polar coordinates with angle in radians,
Here the dot product selects the normal component of the cross product. Motion away from or towards alone contributes no area. The signed specific angular momentum component obeys
for a constant mass . If is chosen along a nonzero conserved specific angular momentum vector, then and the familiar positive formula is . Reversing the orientation changes the sign; the instantaneous unsigned swept-area rate is .
Torque Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
Torque measures a force's turning effect about a specified origin. The geometry in the angular momentum diagram applies with force replacing momentum: transverse forces give positive or negative torque, while a radial force gives zero. A longer perpendicular lever arm makes the same force more effective, explaining why pushing near the end of a handle is useful.
For a force applied at position from a fixed origin in an inertial frame, its torque, or moment of force, is
Here , is the angle between position and force, and is the perpendicular lever arm. Direction follows the right-hand rule; in the plane , positive counterclockwise as viewed from . The International System of Units unit is . Although torque and energy have the same physical dimensions, torque is an axial vector and energy is a scalar; their roles differ.
For and , . Applying the same force at gives ; reversing it gives a negative torque; directing it along gives zero. More generally, sum to find the total torque about one common origin.
For a constant-mass point mass, the product rule and Newton's second law show why net torque changes angular momentum:
The first cross product vanishes because its factors are parallel. For a collection with canceling internal torques, the remaining sum is external torque, giving conservation of angular momentum when it vanishes.[ref]
A nonzero torque can turn the direction of angular momentum as well as change its magnitude. Indeed, the dot product gives : a perpendicular torque changes direction without instantaneously changing the magnitude. This is the geometry behind gyroscope precession. For a rapidly spinning symmetric top with a fixed tip, centre of mass distance from the tip, mass , and spin-dominated angular momentum magnitude , the slow steady precession approximation gives , where is gravitational acceleration. [ref] This is an approximation with ; the uniform precession of a heavy symmetric top retains contributions omitted by the spin-dominated estimate.
Positive-axis keyhole beta integral Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
For ,
with value one at by continuity. A keyhole contour around the positive axis gives a jump factor , while the double pole at has residue .
American put option Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
An American put has exercise payoff . In a finite binomial market, backward option pricing compares that payoff with the discounted risk-neutral continuation value at every node.
Combinatorial Nullstellensatz Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
One coefficient form of the Combinatorial Nullstellensatz says that if and , then for every choice of sets with there is a point at which does not vanish.
Finite-field character approximation Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
Sampling the normalized Fourier expansion of gives an average of phase-adjusted characters whose error is at most . The common kernel of those characters is therefore a low-codimension subspace of almost periods of .
Croot-Sisask almost-periodicity theorem Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-28
If finite sets in a group satisfy , then for and there is with such that every is an almost period of :
Integrable almost complex structure Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
An almost complex structure is integrable when it comes from holomorphic coordinate charts. Equivalently, its Nijenhuis tensor vanishes, or the vector fields are closed under Lie bracket.
Nijenhuis tensor Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-28
The Nijenhuis tensor of an almost complex manifold is
It measures the failure of the tangent distribution to be closed under the Lie bracket.
Projective space Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
Projective space is the set of one-dimensional subspaces of a vector space of dimension , written in homogeneous coordinates .
Morphism of algebraic varieties Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
A morphism of algebraic varieties is a map given locally by regular functions. A projective-coordinate formula defines a morphism wherever its homogeneous coordinate functions do not vanish simultaneously.

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