Weak topology Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-18
The weak topology on a normed space is the coarsest topology making every member of continuous. A net converges weakly exactly when every bounded linear functional converges on it.
Reflexive Banach space Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
A Banach space is reflexive when its canonical embedding is surjective. Equivalently, its closed unit ball is weakly compact.
Schauder basis Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-28
A Schauder basis of a Banach space is a sequence such that every has a unique norm-convergent expansion .
Conformal time Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
Conformal time satisfies and factors the FLRW metric into times a static conformal metric.
Proper distance in cosmology Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
Proper distance is the spatial metric length measured along a fixed-cosmic-time slice.
Spatial curvature of an FLRW universe Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
The cases , , and give spherical, Euclidean, and hyperbolic constant-curvature spatial slices.
Spatially flat FLRW metric Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
In Cartesian comoving coordinates and signature , a spatially flat FLRW universe has
Closed radiation--cosmological-constant turning polynomial Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
If the present radiation and cosmological-constant densities are respectively and times the present critical density, while , positive curvature gives
Turning points are therefore the positive roots of with .
Friedmann acceleration equation Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
For energy density , pressure , and cosmological constant ,
First integral of the Friedmann acceleration equation Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
Combining the perfect-fluid continuity equation with
shows that
is constant in time. This constant is the spatial-curvature integration constant in the first Friedmann equation.
Self-similarity Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
A self-similar object is assembled from smaller copies of itself, possibly after scaling or other transformations.
Sinc-squared integral Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
With the standard Fourier convention, Plancherel theorem applied to gives
Hilbert transform Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
With one common sign convention,
Reversing the denominator reverses the sign.
Fourier transform of inverse distance in three dimensions Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
As a tempered distribution on ,
for a nonzero convention-dependent constant . One proof writes
and applies the Fourier transform of a Gaussian before substituting .
Scaling property of the Fourier transform Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-28
If on with , then
and consequently
Fourier series of x cubed minus pi squared x Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
On ,
Parseval's identity and direct integration of the square give
Fourier cosine series Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
A Fourier cosine series has the form
It represents the even function obtained by reflecting its data across the origin.
Fourier coefficient Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
For an integrable function of period , its complex Fourier coefficients measure its inner product with each complex exponential mode:
For a real function of period , the real coefficient convention of Fourier series gives and for , with . For , the only nonzero complex Fourier coefficients are , , , and . This explains why the real and complex lists look different while representing the same function.
Trigonometric polynomial Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
A trigonometric polynomial is a finite linear combination of complex exponentials , or equivalently of sines and cosines. If it vanishes on an interval, all its coefficients vanish.
Leibniz formula for π Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
The Leibniz formula is the conditionally convergent alternating series

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