Binomial random graph Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-05
The binomial random graph has vertex set and includes each of the possible edges independently with probability .
Grand potential Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
The grand potential is
For a homogeneous extensive system, .
Grand canonical partition function Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-18
The grand canonical partition function is
Horseshoe for an interval map Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-29
An interval map has a horseshoe when there are an open interval and disjoint open intervals such that
Iterating inverse branches produces full two-symbol itinerary dynamics.
Ice sheet dynamics Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-05
Ice sheet dynamics describes the gravity-driven deformation and basal motion of large terrestrial ice masses together with their mass balance.
Maximum-entropy derivation of equilibrium ensembles Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
Maximizing the Gibbs entropy under normalization alone gives a uniform distribution. Adding a fixed mean-energy constraint gives the Boltzmann distribution .
Equatorial wave Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-29
An equatorial wave is trapped near the equator by the sign change of the Coriolis parameter. Its meridional structures are Gaussian-weighted Hermite polynomials.
Rossby wave Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
A Rossby wave is a low-frequency wave restored by the spatial variation of planetary or background potential vorticity. On a beta plane its phase commonly propagates westward.
Ocean circulation Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
Ocean circulation comprises wind-driven, buoyancy-driven, and tidal motions of the ocean over a wide range of spatial and temporal scales.
Geostrophic adjustment Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
Geostrophic adjustment is the radiation of inertia-gravity waves from an unbalanced disturbance, leaving a slower flow in geostrophic balance while conserving linearized potential vorticity.
Quasi-geostrophic approximation Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
The quasi-geostrophic approximation describes slowly evolving, nearly geostrophic flow with small Rossby number. Its dynamics are governed by advection and forcing of potential vorticity.
Rotating fluid Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
Boussinesq approximation Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
The Boussinesq approximation treats density as constant except where a small density variation multiplies gravity to produce buoyancy. The velocity remains incompressible.
Properly discontinuous group action Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
An action is properly discontinuous when every compact set meets only finitely many of its translates. For an isometric action on a proper metric space, this gives the finiteness needed to extract a constant group element from a sequence with bounded source and target.
For a discrete group action on a locally compact space, a standard proper-discontinuity condition is that only finitely many group elements translate a given compact set to meet itself.
Cocompact group action Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
A group action on a space is cocompact when its quotient is compact, equivalently when some compact set has translates covering the space.
Proper metric space Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
A metric space is proper when every closed bounded subset is compact.
Displacement function Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
For an isometry of a metric space, its displacement function is . It is -Lipschitz.
Quasiconvex subset Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-05
A subset of a geodesic metric space is -quasiconvex when every metric geodesic between points of lies in the closed -neighborhood of .
Quasi-isometry Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
A map is a -quasi-isometric embedding when
It is a quasi-isometry when every point of lies a uniformly bounded distance from its image.
Fuchsian group Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
A Fuchsian group is a discrete subgroup of , acting by orientation-preserving isometries of the hyperbolic plane. It is non-elementary when it has no finite orbit in the hyperbolic plane or its ideal boundary.

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